Word: sailorful
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There were tears in Winnie Churchill's eyes at the ovation which greeted him, from isolationist and interventionist Congressmen alike. He shoved his thick, hornrimmed glasses over his nose, blinked, balanced himself like an old sailor. With a sly grin, he made his joke, established himself as one of the boys...
...very happy I drew your name. I think you would like to be a sailor because I heard that you were a leader of sailors in the last big war. The other boys and girls are asking their soldiers and sailors to pray with them. I know you are very busy, but will you say the prayer that I am putting in my letter? Our country needs you very much. I will pray that our Blessed Mother takes care of you. I am 8 years old and I can pray very hard. Goodby, Mr. President, my brave sailor. With love...
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...