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.
Did a float on the LPD, USS Juneau Dec-Jan/70-71, South China Sea. The ocean and weather was as one would expect, rough and stormy. We Marines were in different stages of getting our sea-legs with some battling sea-sickness. Truth be told the Marines on the flat-bottomed LST’s had it worse, rockin-n-rollin. Anyhow we would gaze across the water at the carrier, so big and stable. It did very little rolling and we were envious.
December '66-January '67 was on Iwo Jima (LPH1) in the same area. Undecided weather couldn't make up our minds to make a landing. Meanwhile, experienced "pitch and roll". Sitting on the hanger deck, the ship rolling would reveal light-blue sky out one side with deep frothy blue out the other side. Add to that the fore-aft pitching. Kinda like Chubby Checker going "up&down and around we go"! I went forward to get a haircut and darn near got seasick from the bow slamming into the sea. Finally hung it up and went to our birthing area and used the cure for drinking too much, face down hugging the mattress. It worked! Another day or two and we finally made our landing down below Saigon.
Did a float on the LPD, USS Juneau Dec-Jan/70-71, South China Sea. The ocean and weather was as one would expect, rough and stormy. We Marines were in different stages of getting our sea-legs with some battling sea-sickness. Truth be told the Marines on the flat-bottomed LST’s had it worse, rockin-n-rollin. Anyhow we would gaze across the water at the carrier, so big and stable. It did very little rolling and we were envious.
ReplyDeleteDecember '66-January '67 was on Iwo Jima (LPH1) in the same area. Undecided weather couldn't make up our minds to make a landing.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, experienced "pitch and roll". Sitting on the hanger deck, the ship rolling would reveal light-blue sky out one side with deep frothy blue out the other side. Add to that the fore-aft pitching. Kinda like Chubby Checker going "up&down and around we go"! I went forward to get a haircut and darn near got seasick from the bow slamming into the sea. Finally hung it up and went to our birthing area and used the cure for drinking too much, face down hugging the mattress. It worked!
Another day or two and we finally made our landing down below Saigon.
That is a big hypersonic missile magnet.
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