I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.