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"Down-please", and the deck rose up and dropped again; and I started to feel sick, and beat my way to my cabin. It was six double bunks, on three walls, with a sink on the other. I was the only one there. I climbed onto my top bunk, and laid there unmoving. After a couple of hours,
I spent a long tedious time of-it trying to get undressed and under the covers without moving a Houdini trick,
otherwise I would be sick. It was slow process, undressing, moving just a few muscles at a time; and took a long time to un-clothe, and slide under the covers. I woke at some middle-night annoyance and someone, and I had not seen any of my cabin mates, was vomiting in the sink. Heavy seas.
Greece was in lock-down. There had been a coup, just the week that I left actually. And so I heard, on seeing my old lifer Sergeant, that the army shot missiles at the air-force, and vice-versa; and they went straight-up and came straight-down not exploding. My old bomb disposal unit, had to clean up the mess. I had gotten out of there just in time. I found a bed and breakfast in down-town Athens, and stayed some little time. I had to get my ticket. No recollection. Stopped at a coffee house, and on a pole out front, there were bulletins posted; No Political Conversations Allowed ! and that was anywhere people would congregate. Military officers had taken over.
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