Bright ’n’ early the following morning, did I arise and, after a hearty breakfast, slip off to the train station in Yokuska where I purchased a round trip ticket to Tokyo. I was so much taller than the local inhabitants, that I felt as strange as Gulliver must’ve felt, walking amongst the Lilliputians. Besides, I [...]
As Fate would have Her way, I was not destined to enjoy any pleasure cruise, for She was bound and determined to stir up the waters of life, enough to keep me at odds with the Navy. Unable to circumvent my fate for very long, I began to see why She had earned the name [...]
Then, one day, upon the breath of a sigh from Fate, Herself, were a number of new guys wafted onboard–reservists, like myself, who were still very much alive with the warmth and the feeling of their own humanity–a welcome sight for sore eyes. The first person I met was Greg. From Los Angeles, he was [...]
What I saw, in many of the crew, were men with broken spirits, hollow men who had sold their souls to the Great Gray Mother for a mere pittance. Having been granted the intoxicating drink they sought to ease their pain, and the favors of her prostitutes to satisfy their compulsion for soul as the [...]
What I saw, in many of my shipmates, were men with broken spirits, hollow men who had sold their souls to the Great Gray Mother for a mere pittance. Having been granted the intoxicating drink they sought to ease their pain, and the favors of her prostitutes to satisfy their compulsion for soul as the [...]
