Kapitan Lee

[Kurt Hansen]

I found this story interesting. Dr. Lee is never going to be my best friend, but his sense of survival is “Adapt or die”. We often hear stories of people leading rebellion against their captors, dying bravely in battle or fighting a guerrilla war against the occupiers. This story is about a man who reads a situation and tries to find a way to live through it. No hero stuff here. Even in his personal life, he gives into the situations with his children or his wife dying. He’s a rule follower, no matter who is making the rules. If put into a tough, unknown situation, he will read the propaganda text and find a way to use it. When he spots something that may help his situation, he will file it away until it’s time to use it. Obviously, his skill as a doctor helped him through these tough times, but his chameleon-like skill at adaptation is what saves his neck many, many times.