Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they went belowdecks to deliver their gifts, they learned that one sailor, worst burned of all, had died 20 minutes before...
...wounded were brave and angry men, and it filled the passengers with bravery and anger to talk to them. In one cabin a sailor, whose right leg had been amputated at the knee, gazed across the room at another lad, with his left leg gone, lying morose and silent, too unhappy even to speak. The sailor wrote a note, with the grim humor of the valiant: "How about a dance?" The lad grinned, began to talk...
...wounded men had the same burning wish. Said one sailor: "Before this we didn't want to fight anybody. But now all we want is to get well enough to get our crack at those bastards." He did not yet know that a wound from a bomb splinter on his spine would never let him fight or walk again...
...tiny flotilla moved in battle line toward the still-sleeping village of St. Pierre, a lone bristle-bearded Breton sailor ran down to the quai to greet it, his wooden sabots clattering and slipping on the icy streets. In the still morning air the whole harbor could hear him bilingually swearing: "Pétain, le sacre bleu cochon, le old goat!" . . . With trembling hands he lashed the first corvette line to a bollard. "Vive De Gaulle," he shouted. "At last I can say it. Vive De Gaulle...
...Maritime Commission needs 40,000 more seamen and 10,000 more licensed officers to man the 1,200 new merchantmen which will slide down the ways in 1942-43. It will have to look alive to find them. With jobs in war industries beckoning him ashore, many a sailor has signed off, even though fat bonuses are offered for trips through belligerent waters...