Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life by Louis Zamperini & David Rensin

Author:Louis Zamperini & David Rensin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780062368812
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

THE STORM PASSED but the sea remained rough all night. My sleeping bag, with me in it, was tossed to the floor more than once. But we managed to ride out the worst of it, and in the morning . . . the sea was like glass. Absolutely no wind anywhere. We were grateful. We were also lost, pushed miles out to sea, with torn sails and no power. The tabasco had shorted our radio, saturated our sleeping bags. Below decks looked like a crime scene. Twelve of our fourteen water glasses were broken.

We immediately knew that we wouldn’t be at our next port of call on schedule. The Coast Guard, whom we’d kept informed of our progress, would worry—and maybe try to find us. That, in turn, would distress our families if we were missing for long enough.

“Are you scared?” Steve asked me.

“What do you mean?”

“After what happened in the war? Drifting for days.”

“No, no. Not at all,” I said. I wanted to inspire confidence and calm, but I wasn’t lying, either. What I didn’t say was that because we were so well stocked with fuel and food and drink, I could probably last forty-seven years—not that I wanted to encourage the idea. At any rate, keeping the crew on an even mental keel was a role that I was used to, and good for the soul.

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