Four bells to port - CAPT Speicher, arriving.

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Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep; Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea! O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard And hushed their raging at Thy word, Who walkedst on the ( Read more... )

Yes, Easter is always Good News, but there's a good news of a much more earthly bit today.

All I gotta say is, Fuckin' A Ditty Bag! ^_^

...please thank a veteran.


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Audie Murphy. Dorie Miller. Alvin York. Ruben Hood. Chances are you've heard of these names, certainly your parents have (me, I don't have a choice for at least Ruben Hood, as I'm married to his granddaughter). But for the uninitiated, let me tell you who they were: they were heroes of wars past and legends in their own day. Murphy parlayed ( Read more... )

Warning: kanji ahead. You will be confused. ^_^

Well, it's been a great weekend. For starters, I finally got a chance to head to the Sakura Matsuri, something that the better half and I have been meaning to do for the longest time. After parking at the Vienna station and taking a long and arduous journey through the longest crowd I've seen at ( Read more... )

There are Sailors. And then there's Joe Scumbag.

Navy Times:( Sailor Found Guilty of Fake Heroics )

I'm not usually in the habit of copying memos from work into the public, but this one is just worth it.

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Copied from superquarky, who copied from xale_d"Ok, so last night I met an interesting woman at an event at my theatre. Her name is Germaine, but she's better know as the Cookie Lady. She has personally baked 82,000 cookies and sent them overseas to remind troops that someone cares about them and that people are thinking of them, no matter what else is happening. ( Read more... )

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

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...when it's time to fight a war that requires finesse and precision...

...when it's time to fight an enemy with honor and integrity...

...when it's time to...oh hell, just let all out chaos and disorder rule and start shoveling several metric tons of mass displacement down the enemy's throats the RIGHT way, through the time honored methods of ( Read more... )