The Parade of Ships marked the official beginning of Fleet Week on May 23. Fleet Week, which has been held in New York City since 1984, celebrates the U.S. Navy and Marines Corps with a week of ship visitations and military demonstrations.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Fleet Week kicks off in NYC
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
I have published this before, but recently have had a few requests to see it again. In 1943, Mom and Dad and I drove to Chicago, Illinois, to go to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, to see my Brother who was in training there in a V-12 program. While there, we attended a Sunday Morning church service in the chapel. I remember that Eddy Peabody, the banjo king that we had heard on the radio many times played during the service, and the chaplain ended the service with this poem. Have never forgotten the experience. Here is that poem ........ and, many years later we returned to see our son Brad graduate from boot camp.
The Bridge Builder
by Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide-
Why build you a bridge at the eventide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today,
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
How Times Change ............
Watching the news on TV, they mentioned the different ways some Virus could be contracted, kissing, sex ............ etc., and oral sex.
Late 1952 or early 1953, in the Navy, Discipline Office in San Diego, California, I had what was called the "Discharge" Desk. I did the paper work, and discharged all of the UD's and BCD's for the Eleventh Naval District.
One of my first discharges, was a First Class Metalsmith, who was being discharged with an Undesirable Discharge, a UD.
He admitted, aboard ship, to some of his fellow sailors, that he had "oral sex," with his wife. I think different terminology was used in those days, but that covers it.
In the group was a Navy "Investigator," I forget what we called them then, not NCIS, maybe NIS, but something similar. He turned the information over to the "Bureau," and he was placed in the brig awaiting discharge.
How times change .............
Late 1952 or early 1953, in the Navy, Discipline Office in San Diego, California, I had what was called the "Discharge" Desk. I did the paper work, and discharged all of the UD's and BCD's for the Eleventh Naval District.
One of my first discharges, was a First Class Metalsmith, who was being discharged with an Undesirable Discharge, a UD.
He admitted, aboard ship, to some of his fellow sailors, that he had "oral sex," with his wife. I think different terminology was used in those days, but that covers it.
In the group was a Navy "Investigator," I forget what we called them then, not NCIS, maybe NIS, but something similar. He turned the information over to the "Bureau," and he was placed in the brig awaiting discharge.
How times change .............
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