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

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

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.

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

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.