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Ultimately, Harrell was among the only 317 of the 1,196 men on board to survive, making the incident the single largest loss of life from a single ship in the U.S. Navy’s history.<ref>[https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/08/10/uss-indianapolis-edgar-harrell-tennessee-survivor/923478002/ Tennessee Marine earns his sergeant stripes 73 years after the sinking of USS Indianapolis]</ref>}}
Ultimately, Harrell was among the only 317 of the 1,196 men on board to survive, making the incident the single largest loss of life from a single ship in the U.S. Navy’s history.<ref>[https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/08/10/uss-indianapolis-edgar-harrell-tennessee-survivor/923478002/ Tennessee Marine earns his sergeant stripes 73 years after the sinking of USS Indianapolis]</ref>}}
Edgar Harrel declared:
Andrew Ferebee wrote about Harrell:
{{Cquote|Edgar Harrell owned and operated the Pella Window Company, Inc., Rock Island, Illinois for thirty-five years until his retirement in 1985. During the years 1970 to 1985, he served on the board of trustees of the Moody Bible Institute, in Chicago, Illinois, and has been a popular Bible teacher and lay minister throughout his adult life.
He has enjoyed many years of fishing and big game hunting in the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico and currently resides in Clarksville, Tennessee with his wife Ola, together enjoying their two children, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. As a survivor of the USS Indianapolis, Mr. Harrell speaks extensively around the United States about his experience at sea.<ref>[https://www.knowledgeformen.com/podcast-edgar-harrell/ 75: Edgar Harrell: A WWII Survivor’s Story of the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis]</ref>}}
== Edgar Harrel's testimony about his experience during the USS Indianapolis sinking incident ==
{{Cquote|You see maybe a body on an eight foot swell. And all of the sudden that swell breaks and that body comes down and he he hits you and he leaves that residue on you. And you see that and say, "Is that going to be me tomorrow or yet today?". And see you look up. And may I say, "There is no such thing as atheists in foxholes . There were no atheists out there."
{{Cquote|You see maybe a body on an eight foot swell. And all of the sudden that swell breaks and that body comes down and he he hits you and he leaves that residue on you. And you see that and say, "Is that going to be me tomorrow or yet today?". And see you look up. And may I say, "There is no such thing as atheists in foxholes . There were no atheists out there."