I awoke to a tremendous panic, I have no idea what happened, a violent tremor shook the boat, which is weird because it's a huge boat and the 20-foot Atlantic surf gently rocks it. Water started rushing into the bunk hull where I was sleeping, and people were running around like chickens with their heads cut off. I decided to run so I don't drown, but all the escape doors were blocked by frantic people. The alarms started to sound and the lights flickered, I couldn't see where I was going and then something very heavy struck me in the side of the head and I passed out. .
I awoke in a medical tent, and realized I wasn't on the boat any more. I got up to walk around but only got a couple feet before I felt faint and had to sit down. A doctor walked into my room and started to speak, "How are you feeling today Joe?". I replied, "Horrible, what happened to me?" the doc said, "You were attacked by a kamikaze pilot at approximately 0200 hours, and I"m sorry to be the one to inform you but ." And then he took a long pause, "but you are the only survivor. There was one other but he died shortly after he arrived". I gasped and sat in complete shock and horror, how could this happen? I was unconscious when the boat sank, I couldn't have got out! I asked the doc, "How did I get here?!?!" but when I looked up he was gone, then some men walked in the tent carrying a stretcher and a limp man hung gruesomely over the edge like a rag doll. I decide to try and sleep and find out what happened tomorrow when I"m less groggy.
When I woke up I felt better but my head still throbbed, the limp man was gone, I got up to look around camp, as I arose I saw a calendar, it read June 1, 1944, I must have been sleeping for a week or so, because the last date I could remember was the day of the attack on my boat which was May 28, 1944. It was dark outside and my vision was blurred from the rhythmic thumping coming from my head.
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