On June 12, 1991, Mt. Pinatubo, 20 miles north of the Subic Bay Naval Station, erupted at nine o'clock in the morning. I jumped into the cockpit of an A-4, and led four airplanes off to Okinawa; I took this picture 30 minutes later as the dust cloud reached an attitude of 40,000 feet. Three days later Mt. Pinatubo blew its top 90,000 feet into the sky, blocked out the sun for 36 hours, killed 600 people and left 100,000 homeless. We used this opportunity to share the gospel with hundreds of people in the refugee camps.

Lieutenant Lance Patterson

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