Chapter 18 – The Pacific
HE WOKE IN A BED, but was unsure where he was. He’d been cleaned up. He was in a hospital gown and looked around at his hands then wiggled his feet under the sheet to assure himself that he was still in one piece. He then took a few labored breaths, and it felt far better than it had in the van. After some time, a Navy corpsman walked in, and Cole pieced things together.
He asked, “Where am I?”
The corpsman just looked at him and replied matter-of-factly, “You’re on a cruiser, Sir. I’ll go get your partner.”
The corpsman disappeared, and a few minutes later Tony walked in and pulled up a chair beside Cole. “How are you feeling, Cole?”
Cole tilted his head to one side and sighed. “I’ve been better, but I’m alive. So where the hell are we?”
Tony smiled. “We had
