Mike Durant

And in the end, they're going to do the same for me when I get the Bible.

And, again, some of this I was just winging because it's common sense, right?

But I...

I just listened to his stories and just sort of filed them away.

And then he said, would you like a radio?

And I said, yeah.

I mean, one of the lessons I learned in survival school, they offered me a candy bar and I said, no, not unless everybody in the class gets one.

And in the debrief, they said, well, that's a bad call.

You need the candy bar.

We're not asking you to do anything to earn the candy bar.

You know, just eat it.

So I'm like, okay, I'll take the radio.

And they show up with a little transistor radio.

And from that point, I'm listening to the Armed Forces Network broadcast.

I'm listening to BBC.

So now I have a connection to the outside world.

Hugely important for morale, right?

And then something weird starts to happen.

I think it was on the 8th, which is like five days later, or five days after the shoot down.

They come in, they start sweeping up all the dead flies in the room.