Word: pastula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tony Pastula, the 24-year-old bomber, came of a Polish family in Youngstown, Ohio. He had a horror of being buried at sea on a rough day. "Perhaps, also," says Dixon, "he had a # Seamen Pastula, Dixon, Aldrich. horror of being eaten [by his mates]." Tony was the thinnest and thought he might be the first to die. Nevertheless, he agreed with the other two that "the survivors should eat the heart, liver and other such organs" of whichever one went first. Says Dixon: "Today I don't believe that any of us had a real intention...
...Pastula smiled...
...seventh day Aldrich slashed out with the pocketknife again, this time gilled a four-foot shark and yanked it aboard. It flopped down on Pastula in the bottom of the raft. He rolled over and pinned it like a wrestler. With their pliers the men ripped the shark open. Dixon remembered reading that sharks stored up vitamins in their liver. They joked about that. The liver was "very tasty," so were two sardines in the shark's stomach which the men said "must have been partly digested because they tasted as if they had been cooked...
...their only shelter was a tiny piece of fabric ripped off the oar pocket. On the 33rd day the raft capsized once more. "For the first time," Dixon said, "I was ready to give up." His nerves were so frayed that he flew into violent rages. But Aldrich and Pastula only stared at him. Then came the 34th day and Aldrich shouted: "Chief, I see a beautiful cornfield...
...This the Hill? Is This the Kirk? Paddling with the last of their energy, the three men made for shore. Pastula screeched when a shark struck his hand. "Hell with the shark," Dixon roared. "Row." At sundown they grounded on the beach, then found that they could scarcely walk because their legs were so cramped. Dixon's hip refused to straighten out, but even so he forced his crew to march up the beach in military fashion...