J. F.
Kennedy, the late president of the United States of America, was very brave and
active since he was young.
During the
Second World War he enlisted in the Navy and as he showed a great sense of
responsibility on several occasions, he was given the command of a torpedo boat.
On an
August night his ship was sunk by a Japanese destroyer not far from the Solomon
Islands. Kennedy and the ten survivors swam for many hours till they reached an
island but what is astonishing is that Kennedy, though he was wounded, succeeded
in bringing ashore one of his sailors who was badly hurt. As the island was
deserted, the next morning Kennedy and his sailors moved to another island and
from this to a third one. There, at last, they found some friendly Melanesians
who helped them and carried Kennedy on board an Australian ship.
The ship’s
radio transmitted the survivors’ position and at last all of them were saved.
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