By Patti Dobranski
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
James Leininger's parents want their 8-year-old son to have a great life -- his own life.
But for the past 5 1/2 years, the Louisiana boy has been reliving pieces of the life of another James -- Lt. James McCready Huston, a World War II fighter pilot from Uniontown who was killed near Iwo Jima more than 50 years before James was born.
At 2 1/2 years old, James began expressing aviation knowledge that surpassed not just a typical toddler's ability, but that of his parents.
The child began reciting a collection of information and had recurring nightmares about being shot down by a Japanese plane with a red sun on it.
James' parents, Bruce and Andrea, eventually realized their son's assertions were accurate and that something beyond the tangible was occurring. Their lives have not been the same.
Beginning in 2004, James made a couple of TV appearances for ABC News and on the Montel Williams Show.
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