It began with a letter, you know – the old fashioned kind, paper and pen, that opened with “You don’t know me but we have a mutual friend…” when we were outbound from our one and only port visit (Singapore) on our 1980 deployment (CVW-7/CVN-69). From there it grew – a whirlwind relationship with precious…
“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which…
O BE joyful in the LORD, all ye lands: * serve the LORD with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. Be ye sure that the LORD he is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; * we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. O…
File this under “Getting It Right”: IMMEDIATE RELEASE   No. 352-12 May 07, 2012 Secretary of The Navy Announces DDG 116 to be Named Thomas Hudner Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the next Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer (DDG) will be named the USS Thomas Hudner. Thomas J. Hudner Jr., a naval…
(*Telegraph from Patrol Wing Two Headquarters warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor) On this, the eve of the 70th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor… Â Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: <– Listen to the speech Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date…
And so here we are, on the cusp of the 40th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon – where have we come in those forty years? As a star-crossed (literally) youth in 1969, my imagination was fired by the likes of the space program. From Sheppard’s sub-orbital flight that I recall watching from…
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After 15 years I still do miss it. At times, terribly, because of the shipmates I had over the years. The noise of flight ops, the HCT-10 in my hydraulic shops on Ranger and Kitty Hawk, the Boatwain’s Pipe and on and on.
That funny looking trawler waiting off the VACapes. The Cape Henry Light coming over the horizon. Things like that. Yeah. I still miss it. Oh, how I do MISS IT.