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Otherwise, I found life onboard ship boring as usual, so much so, that one day I was moved to paint what I was feeling after having been assigned to paint some pipes that ran up beside an exterior bulkhead along the starboard side of the hangar bay. Since these pipes had already been prepped, I [...]
Around this time, I bought some civilian clothes so that I could go down to Waikiki Beach, in the evenings, and blend in with the rest of the tourists. For the sake of my humanity, I needed to get away from that menagerie of animals back onboard the ship, as much as possible, to avoid [...]
Having popped through a forward hatch onto the bow of the ship, I immediately encountered a guard with a .45 strapped to his side, pacing back and forth across the deck, oblivious of the shrill sound that pierced the air like the screaming of a woman in distress. “This is ASROC,” I heard my guide [...]
While in the neighborhood of this Jurassic Park, I encountered one of the largest dinosaurs to have escaped from the imaginations of men, a species of Frankensteinian Behemoth, more commonly known as the aircraft carrier Enterprise. When I learned how many hundreds of thousands of pounds of human flesh this beast had consumed since its [...]
A Different Kind of Sentinel by Sir E. J. Drury II A review Having survived the war in Vietnam, without physical injury to himself, the author “had nonetheless incurred the deeper wounds of a house divided against itself.” As a child, had not he experienced his real father’s schizophrenia and, later, his stepfather’s alcoholism as [...]
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