History ~ Wikipedia In 1943 in the Solomon Islands, John F. Kennedys PT-109 was rammed and sunk. Islanders Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana who found Kennedy and the survivors remember that when they rode on PT boats to retrieve the survivors, the Marines sang this song with the natives, who had learned it from Seventh-day Adventist missionaries.[6][7] This hymn was titled China in some hymnals of the 19th century. [8] Some early hymnals, such as The Modern Hymnal (1926) explain this title with a subtitled note that says, The favorite Hymn of China.[9] By the time of later hymnals such as the Baptist Hymnal (1975), the subtitle had been dropped and the tune was simply called CHINA. youtu.be/0DYDvyBKZJA
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