AK 239: The Enemy Is Already Here

Kendrick Bay Shoreline

Robert Stone’s Diary

^{Christmas Day}

My deputy son, Tony, pulls me out of the water.

Tony, “Did you see Jimmy?”

I say shivering and panicked,

“It was so dark. I felt him next to me. I couldn’t get his belt off. I tried.”

Tony says, “Dad, it’s not your fault. We had no idea all this…”

Tony stopped talking as he realized I wasn’t listening. I am just staring at the upside down plane in the water and taking this really hard realizing our pilot is likely still in the plane, underwater.

After eternity passes I come to my senses and pull out my satellite phone.

I look at it to see if I have a signal and start to shake it when there is nothing.

I then throw it onto the sandy beach right where we stand.

Damn! Damn! Double damn!