And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
May1970, USS Okinawa LPH-3, enroute to New Zealand, Typhoon in the South Pacific, we end up in the middle of it???? How?? Easy, Ask Comodore LaCava why he over rode the Ship's navigator and changed course 90*!!! Put us right smack in the middle of it for 5 days!!! I was so seasick I was heaving dry and puking mucus!!! I lost 15 pounds in 5 days!! Waves were breaking over the bow up on the flight deck!!! As for damage, we ended up spending as I recall a week in Subic and another week or so in Sasebo Japan to get the Ship back in shape!! At the co$t of lots of Your and My TAX DOLLARS (1970 style!!) I learned a lot about sailing from that!!! That's what yard arms are made for...."HANG THE BAS%A&D!!!!!" Got Good Hemp Rope!!!!??, III%, skybill-out PS Oh for the good old daze when real men flew the "Jolly Roger!!!!!" ....AAARRGH Matey!!
"The ship is safe in the harbor.
ReplyDeleteBut, that's not what ships are made for."
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I just now Googled it.
DeleteIt was stated by John Augustus Shedd in his 1928 book, "SALT FROM MY ATTIC", i.e.,
"When it is rose leaves all the way, we soon become drowsy; thorns are necessary to wake us…"
"We have strength for today’s work. If yesterday’s is added, we stagger; if we try to carry tomorrow’s, down we go …"
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
I'll bet there's not a rat left on that ship.
ReplyDeleteMay1970, USS Okinawa LPH-3, enroute to New Zealand, Typhoon in the South Pacific, we end up in the middle of it???? How?? Easy, Ask Comodore LaCava why he over rode the Ship's navigator and changed course 90*!!! Put us right smack in the middle of it for 5 days!!! I was so seasick I was heaving dry and puking mucus!!! I lost 15 pounds in 5 days!! Waves were breaking over the bow up on the flight deck!!! As for damage, we ended up spending as I recall a week in Subic and another week or so in Sasebo Japan to get the Ship back in shape!! At the co$t of lots of Your and My TAX DOLLARS (1970 style!!) I learned a lot about sailing from that!!! That's what yard arms are made for...."HANG THE BAS%A&D!!!!!"
ReplyDeleteGot Good Hemp Rope!!!!??,
III%,
skybill-out
PS Oh for the good old daze when real men flew the "Jolly Roger!!!!!" ....AAARRGH Matey!!