By Harry Minium
DeLisha Milton-Jones had been under water for so long that she could no longer hold her breath. Her mouth opened involuntarily, and chlorinated water quickly began to fill her stomach and lungs.
She could not swim, but that had not stopped the shy but precocious 11-year-old from goofing around with her friends around a pool at a church outing. She slipped, hit her head on the side of the pool and fell into 12-feet of water.
She momentarily blacked out and awoke gasping for air. In all the commotion, at first, no one noticed she was in the water.