Charlie's answer was typical: 'That's OK, doctor, I'm quite prepared to go.'
He never complained, biting back the pain he must have felt.
I eventually dropped off to sleep, but woke suddenly around midnight. The silence hit me - the ward bay was deadly quiet, no cries of pain.
Answering the call of nature, I got up and as I passed Charlie's bed, pulled his curtain aside and saw he had gone to meet his maker.
Men like Charlie, in the war, faced death daily on the seas infested with enemy U' boats whose objective was to send them to a watery grave.
I ask the younger generation to remember the men who served in the Royal Navy and gave their tomorrows for our todays
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Aurora screamed. In his rush to help Aurora, Icarus found himself holding Aurora close. Glancing down, he noticed she wore a necklace. A silvery cross. Icarus remembered Badenne hated Christian women - women like her mother.
'Get her away!' Icarus bellowed at Fesano over the ripping of what could only be curtains - it seemed as though Badenne was completely irate now.
Fesano nodded with a rookie's obedience. Picking up Aurora as though she were a suitcase, he ran out of the house. With a flicker of morbid amusement, Icarus could hear the ever-stubborn Aurora chastising Fesano for not knowing how to carry a lady properly.
As soon as the pair of them were out of the house, the ghostly temper tantrum came to an abrupt halt
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