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born: 1954

gender: male

city: apex, nc

golo member since: July 15, 2007

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" I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."

                                                              - Pete Seeger


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favorite music: classic rock, folk, 'back porch music', various

favorite movies: hasn't been made yet

favorite hobbies: reading, cooking, guitar, chess, annoying the politically comfortable

favorite tv shows: my name is earl

favorite restaurants: too many to name

favorite web sites: ditto

favorite vacation spots: nc mountains, minneapolis, nyc





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Thanks for the new avatar, I am using it now!! I just got home from Atlanta, where, God help us all, we had the memorial service for Mike's cousin and his wife, who disappeared from Hilton Head last year. I have never been to a service where there was uh...no person to bury. It was all very Twilight Zone, between all the news and the TV people out there. Freaky. Hugs to you and the gorgeous, glorious Sheba!!!

Oh WOW!!! What a wonderful thing! Thank you so much for sharing the link. I hope you and Sheba are having a delightful weekend. :)

Asking a favor...could you pls leave this up a day or two, I'm writing this for "brat is Kestrel" too. I've asked her to go to your profile to read this.

I'm sorry if I jump around but thoughts come to mind in pieces.

She took a 23 degree port list, if it had been a starboard list, she would have gone down due to the Island being on the starboard side. By the time we got to the US we were all crazy! We started a bar room, bottle throwing, brawl in Jacksonvelle that got about 50 of us thrown in the brig overnight. That fight could have really gotten out of hand had the Jarhead MP's not stopped it. Its still like a dream, a very bad nightmare, I still have them.

BTW, on manning the hoses "24/7" on the pier in Subic, we did have relief every hour or so. We would sneek off to try & catch a short nap too, if possible. There's more but I feel I've probably bored you enough.....catch you later.

Its hard to imagine the aftermath of tragedies like this. Parts of guys were put into the freezers on the way home....that's right, food was kept there too. Heck, those 33 straight days @ sea alone was enough to run you crazy. To add insult to injury, back in the States, whenever we left to ship in uniform, many people glared down @ us. esp in bus stations & airports. It was like we were responsible for the war in Vietnam. I, along w/ a least half the crew, hated that war w/ a passion but I did my duty....we all did! This Cruse Book I have is full of pics of good times & bad....many pics of bombs going off and sailors with faces of horror. BTW, we were close enough to the "Stall" on the day of the fire to hear the bombs going off. Those 1000 lb bombs (7 of 'em) blew 20' holes in the flight deck (2" steel) and down to the overhead of the 5th deck. She really should have laid over & sank. You should see these pics! (cont)

Back again Smorg, before deploying the Philippines, we offloaded a large no. of body bags, some were unusually light. The whole thing was making everybody puke....all those bags were lined up in hangar bay three, they took up a large area....it was like being in Hell to say the least. (134 men died in that fire.) On our trip home (Aug 11 - Sept 14) was 12 to 14 hrs a day "cleaning up". No telling how much stuff we threw over the side during that time. Hundreds of sailors had no bunk to sleep in (including me), about 1 1/2 hrs to get something to eat. Opening hatches down below was horrifying, we didn't know what we'd find doing that. We'd all say a prayer just b 4 pulling up the hatch. Thankfully, almost every one of them were just full of water so then the pumping set up came to be. Geez, we found bits of guys burned to a crisp in the passageways b 4 we left BTW. These things went into body bags...no telling who they belonged to. IDK where those BBs went.(cont)

Hi Smorg, there's a long story behind me & the Forrestal. There were 17 of us, in transit, on an oiler en route to refuel Forrestal & we sailors were to to be high-lined across. Our rendezvous day was the same day She blew up, we were only a few miles away so we could hear the bombs going off. Nobody knew what started the fire so we were ordered back to Subic Bay, PI. We were one day ahead of the "Stall" getting there but that was where the other hell began. When She came in, still burning, we had to man fire hoses 24/7 for two days until is was safe for us to be checked in. (we were checked in @ 2 AM, 8/3/67) My first job assignment was to man more hoses & look for bodies & body parts. The whole back third of the ship was totally burned all the way down to the 7th deck. The stench made us all physically ill, that smell stayed with us for weeks. Little did I know all this would haunt me to this day. Its very hard to describe all this...I'll send you the rest soon..has to do w/body bags

I have never really noticed his being reasonable. It always seems to be his way or your wrong. Now, though, he seems angrier than usual. Strange.

And your stalker was commenting about you on his profile....she seems to do that a lot, rather than commenting directly. Strange.

Check behind you...you have a stalker!

"So, only those that wore the uniform get to be your friends, Prom? Even if 'friend' means "I respect your opinion, even if I disagree"?

Interesting concept. "

No - not a "concept" - a strawman argument - a distortion of the truth regearding my stance on the argument - colloquially called a lie.

I find that liars are not my "friends"...

We're done - or at least I am.

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