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activity normally it did but the city of

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it was a double siege the port was

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paralyzed from within by the threat of

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plague cholera it was cut off from the

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blockade had been imposed by the new

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self-appointed dictator Colonel pran sha

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this was his answer the malla banks

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demand for constitutional Liberty for

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gunboats were reinforced by an

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underwater minefield from the docks to

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the harbour entrance the mines were

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crude and put together in a hurry but

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obviously the gunboats knew the exact

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location of each mine still they came a

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lot too close for safety theirs and mine

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I'm Mike Nelson I had been visiting

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boom and then when the cholera broke out

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I had to help I volunteered to disarm

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enough of these mines to the hospital

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ship enter the harbor safely I had

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more to go including this one the little

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box on top held the firing mechanism it

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worked by contact and pressure a

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harmlessly but a boat passing by close

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enough would set it off

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the trickiest part of the job was

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cutting the two wires that led from a

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firing mechanism down into the high

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explosive I held my breath while I

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snipped<font color="

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breathing again till I cut the second

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the explosive inside the bag was

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especially tricky it was called c3 ten

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times more unstable than dynamite and a

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hundred times more powerful I couldn't

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Harbor I was for sure it would decompose

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however buried in the sandy bottom this

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was the fifth load of explosive I

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disposed him this way

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the sharpshooters on the gunboat weren't

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continued too long and their patrol

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pattern but their passage overhead set

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the mind bobbing and weaving like a

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punch-drunk fighter

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all I could<font color="

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it never did

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I was lucky I've been far enough away

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from the explosion to escape internal

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injury my only problem now I was

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breathing my air was gone the gunboat

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patrolling the outer<font color="

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be waiting for me but I worry about that

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later

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I didn't need the tanks anymore

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so I ditched them

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be able to make it back home by the

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service route

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my checkpoint was the tower which served

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the command post of an alabang

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we had won the battle to clear the

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harbor but on shore the fight was going

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all the other way they were taking a

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beating even inside the command post

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Mayerson and I are the resistance leader

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told me how bad<font color="

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any words either we're losing control my

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friend since noon yesterday 155 new

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cases still nothing to treat them with

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know what is worse now the preventive

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vaccine is gone to<font color="

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must come soon or it will be all over do

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right now isn't it we've heard nothing

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since late last night so cholera me

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concur were prong shot failed we were

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winning Mike we were<font color="

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may have to surrender what you can't

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surrender prime jet has medical supplies

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in order to get them you know what he's

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going to do to you

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don't you yes to your daughter<font color="

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people who've been working with you yes

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I know

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make why did it have to end this way it

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hasn't ended yet as your American hero

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said don't give up the ship<font color="

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right quite a few battles are won by

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holding on just a little longer longer

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just a little longer than you possibly

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can you sound like my father

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yeah oh thanks for the compliment you

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know<font color="

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against punch ah they begged him I did

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too

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we couldn't go on living this way under

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a dictatorship anyway I thought we

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couldn't but no I don't know yes you do

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you do no no the city is dying Mike

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hey I<font color="

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pretty eyes of yours very well the

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hospital ships here take a look yeah

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been here for quite a while - just

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putting on a launch isn't it you're

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right I can see it<font color="

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ship that's good Mike you can see the

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dock from here

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tell me when your lunch arrives Franchot

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will let it through mommy that was our

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agreement

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look me out here this is Radio Free

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Singhania your courage and your faith

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have been rewarded help is here the

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hospital ship Louis Pasteur has dropped

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anchor outside malabon harbor medical

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supplies will be landed on our ducks in

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a matter of minutes

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the gunboat just fired on the launch no

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yes it's turning back so that's what

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planchette meant when he said he would

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respect international law he meant he

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would not attack the hospital ship

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outside territorial waters but inside in

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this is<font color="

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has just a reason which may mean that

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our hopes may fail for now this is Radio

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Free malabon signing off we get our

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medical supplies somehow yes Mike from

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Colonel<font color="

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headquarters please oh no please well

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you can't you can't give up but Mike

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there is no other way there might be

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it's a long shot but I'm willing to give

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it a try will you back me up

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stay right where they are outside

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territorial waters I'm gonna go out and

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get those medical supplies underwater

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Mike you can't you have to pass through

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the harbor the gunboat fired at you once

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missed me didn't it please huh tell him

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radio free malabon calling hospital ship

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louis pasteur radio free mala bang

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calling hospital ship Louis Pasteur over

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the Louis Pasteur<font color="

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Haleiwa speaking over dr. Holly this is

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sananda we need your medical supplies

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desperately and we have a way of getting

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to them please do not leave your

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your position over

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he will maintain position we will

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maintain position over and up prawns

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yachts men had no intention of

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maintaining their position

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I didn't even suspect it but before I

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just where and how to hit me off

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the gunboats blocked any passage through

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melih bank harbor topside that is I hope

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to make it out to the hospital ship

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underwater

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I had to make it it was the only way

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that mallet bang could get the supplies

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Colonel prawns

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this gunboat had fired at me last time

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so this time I waited till it was a good

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ways off before coming up to take my

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I felt I might be safe down on the

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bottom I hadn't counted on the

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opposition coming up with a brand new

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gimmick using hand grenades a small size

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depth charges

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they felt king-sized to me

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dragged me out of range the grenades

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made me groggy like being hit on the

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head and in the middle by a two-barrel

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that gunboats Kippur wasn't taking any

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for another run at me

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my only hope of beating the gunboat was

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to stay deep and shift my course

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I couldn't do much of that though I had

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I made it to the hospital ship in one

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piece but it was all I could do to climb

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that ladder all the way to the deck it

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must have been fifty feet straight up

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I am sorry mr. nurse and I can't give

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you the medicine what I am sorry doctor

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you've got to give it to me it is not

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safe I I know how you feel I know how

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discouraging it is to it what is the

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stick out your neck I could get a shot

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with this stuff but you have to put it

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in waterproof cases could you do it yes

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needs plenty of strong another rope mr.

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Nelson please miss elected what I could

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do it in one trip I just have enough air

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could do it mr. Nelson sit down and

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listen to me you barely got here with

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your life and now you propose to go all

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the way back with three cases of

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cholera vaccine there is within hundreds

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of miles I can't afford to take such a

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chance doctor lady I don't know how much

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you know about military blockades but I

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blockaded for years well then you know

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what'll happen

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they'll kill soon on die first and talk

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about medicine later mala bang will go

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we let them it's up to us that medicine

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is all important to him

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can you do it I've got to you realize

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what you're asking me to do hmm

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to stretch out your<font color="

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mr. Nelson you have no right to ask this

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on me and I have no right to grant it

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but I'm going to

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the return trip started like a breeze I

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began to think that the gunboats had

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given me up as a bad<font color="

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before I had any reason to think

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otherwise I was deep inside the harbor

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almost two-thirds of the way home I

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guess they figured that if they couldn't

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lick me they'd join me at least<font color="

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fight me in my own element

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they sent a shell diagram to me a man

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who could stay down for minutes at a

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time without scuba and who could keep it

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up all day

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his objective was the same as mine the

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supplies

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his knife slashed the towline had

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dropped my scooter down into a 500 foot

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chasm then he turned his attention to me

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but the knife ended up in his shoulder

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instead

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their divert was out of action but they

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weren't finished with me yet apparently

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other gunboats and box me in between

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them

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another mine one of the other gunboats

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must have sewn a fresh crop

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I didn't have much time to speculate

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among all parties on the island the

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auspices beginning one week from today

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this is Radio Free mullah Bank signing

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off until 6 o'clock tonight you better

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pretty soon yes uh-huh

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an epidemic of freedom

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I'll be back next week at the same time

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