Jacob Deshazer: Forgive Your Enemies by Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Author:Janet Benge & Geoff Benge [Benge, Janet & Benge, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, General, Religious, Christian
ISBN: 9781576584750
Google: ALDtnQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1576584755
Barnesnoble: 1576584755
Publisher: YWAM Publishing
Published: 2009-01-01T11:47:10+00:00

Chapter 11

Everything Was New and Alive

Jake and the other four Doolittle Raiders sat silently as the truck rumbled along. Little was said throughout the journey as they all contemplated what might be about to happen to them. Jake had held out the vague hope that they would be reunited with Dean, Will, and Harry, but these men were nowhere to be seen. Despite his best efforts, Jake found himself thinking about the three men’s probable deaths and hoping that their executions had been swift.

When the truck came to a halt, the men were transferred to an airplane, and a short while later they were airborne. The flight lasted about an hour. When they landed, George and Chase, both trained navigators, whispered that from the landmarks they had been able to spot as they peeked out of the corner of their blindfolds during the flight, they were in Nanking, northwest of Shanghai.

In Nanking they were taken from the airplane to another prison. This prison, with its shiny metal doors and fresh paint, appeared to be new. But Jake’s heart dropped when he realized that he and his friends were once again being put into solitary confinement. Jake braced himself for the endless hours he would have to spend alone again. He pondered a comment that Chase had made one day back at Kiangwan Military Prison. Chase had observed that the hardest thing to do was nothing at all. He said that the human mind and body were made to do things and noted how torturous it became when that was taken away and a man was left with nothing to do.

The only consolation for Jake was that he was put in the smallest cell, he presumed because he was the shortest of the Doolittle Raiders. That the cell measured only five feet by five feet wasn’t the good news. The good news, as Jake discovered, was that since the walls were only five feet apart, he was able to climb up them by placing his feet and hands on opposite walls. In this manner he could inch his way up to the tiny vent window about ten feet up the wall. There he was rewarded with a view of the countryside. How wonderful it was to catch a glimpse of people going about their business. Of course, he could climb the walls only when no one was watching. He had no idea what the punishment for such an activity would be, and he did not want to find out.

Jake enjoyed another pleasant surprise at the Nanking prison. Since the place was so new, it was not yet infested with lice, fleas, or rats.

Yet another surprise was in store for Jake at the prison. A short while after his arrival there, a desk and chair were brought into the cell and nailed down to the floor. In Jake’s case the desk and chair created a challenge to sleep around, but it was a challenge Jake was willing to endure to have a chair to sit on and a desk to lean against during the day.

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