Second Chances

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Some curiosities are uplifting, and some are tragic. Hopefully pairing them together will help today's tour balance itself out.

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0:00.0	Welcome to AirNmenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm
0:08.7	and Mild.
0:13.0	Our world is full of the unexplainable.
0:16.3	And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,
0:22.2	just waiting for us to explore.
0:25.4	Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.
0:30.0	Everyone deserves a second chance, although few truly ever get one.
0:41.0	In war there are no second chances.
0:43.3	As the philosopher Plato allegedly put it, only the dead have seen the end of war.
0:48.9	Don Carcos, however, didn't die, and yet he saw the end of war.
0:53.2	Well sort of.
0:54.5	The day after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, 16-year-old Don went with his older brother to
0:59.1	the local Navy Recruitment Center in their hometown of Lewiston, Maine.
1:03.0	While waiting for his brother to finish his application, a recruiter popped his head
1:06.6	into the waiting room and asked the younger Don why he wasn't joining his brother.
1:10.9	He told the man that he wasn't old enough just yet, but his birthday was a few days
1:14.8	away.
1:16.1	Good enough, the recruiter said, and just like that, Don was enlisted in the United States
1:20.4	Navy alongside his older brother.
1:23.6	He was placed on the USS Rapidin out of Boston.
1:26.5	The Rapidin wasn't a ship meant to see action though.
1:29.5	It was a tanker that would sail around waters infested with German submarines in order to
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