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She Who Must Be Obeyed

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 [...]

The Missing Link

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 [...]

The Most Precious Gift You Have

Seeking Wulf out that evening, I found him up on the Signal Bridge where, with a fixed gaze, he stood wrapped in his own thoughts. Startled by the sound of my approach, he turned and smiled halfheartedly as if he weren’t too pleased to see me. “Hi,“ he finally said with raised brows and a [...]

Nature of the Beast

I hadn’t heard from my girlfriend back home since I had arrived onboard the ship, three or four weeks ago, until I found a letter from her lying on my bunk. As my heart leapt within my chest, I grabbed the letter and tore into it. Dear Butch, Sounds like you don’t think too much [...]

Instinctive Reactions of a Dumb Ass

I knew very little about Vietnam, except that US troops were being deployed there to halt the spread of Communism. While I had no qualms with this goal on the surface, underneath I simmered in a pot of emotional uncertainty that seemed to contradict this a priori assertion. At the time, I was unable to [...]

Through the Looking Glass

I awoke the following morning only to find myself rushing around to get to my battle station on time when, after a leisurely breakfast, the call went out over the loudspeaker for all hands to report to general quarters for my first real taste of war games since coming onboard the ship. No sooner had [...]

She or Her

So did I depart from Treasure Island somewhat perplexed by the sudden appearance of the notion that feeling is a feminine quality. For once my plane was in the air, I grew increasingly concerned about these spontaneous references of mine to feeling as she or her, as if my body were inhabited by another person [...]