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Don't be afraid - be clam - preserve your enegery, I kept on teeling myself but I was scare to death! It felt trap, it was so helpless not being able to do anything. I was so angry with myself for [[strikethrough]] havin [[/strikethrough]] being so careless to have fallen out of the plane. Now there is nothing to do but to get drown such a useless end, I wouldn't mind dying for a worthwhile cause. 

My whole life flushed pass me clearly like a picture and I thought of all the things I could have done and the things I shouldn't have. The water is up to my mouth now, the leather suit is dragging me down. Oh where is the rescue? It seems hours since they left me. I try desperately to keep my head up by moving my arms, some cords from the chute had tangled my neck and arms and I couldn't get them off without putting my head under water, I am swallowing water now, I won't be able to keep up much longer! At the very last moment, a plane appear! It was taxing toward me . Oh what joy, I never was so happy to see anything in my life. They picked me out