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Yankee Station

In the silence that overcame me as I refixed my gaze upon the stark panorama, which had unfolded before my eyes, I recalled some vague passage from the Gospel of Luke (12:54-57): “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say immediately that rain is coming—and so it does. When the wind blows [...]

The Vagaries of a Melancholy Mood

As the ship steamed relentlessly southward at full speed ahead, the mood of the crew grew conspicuously more somber. Forced to let go of the frenzied and orgiastic pleasures of a Dionysian holiday in Japan, they unwillingly surrendered themselves to the more Apollonian way of life found onboard the ship. Totally incapable of seeing beyond [...]

The Price We Must Pay for Our Actions

After we’d pulled out of Yokuska, later that morning, I was ordered by the master-at-arms to report, in dress whites, to the Captain’s stateroom for a Captain’s Mast. With my entry into the Captain’s stateroom on the heels of the master-at-arms, I found the XO and a yeoman from the ship’s office already standing by. [...]

A Formidable Barrier

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 [...]

The Wisdom Warehoused within Fantasies

SENIOR MEMBER: In this psychiatric evaluation of you, the clinical psychologist clearly indicated, at one point, that you had presented no evidence of ever having had any delusions or loosened associations. During the course of your interview then, did you not discuss with him any of the very vivid visual and auditory fantasies you had [...]

Stuck on the Threshold of a Dream

That night I had a dream in which I found myself wrestling with a prostitute who kept insisting that I give into her. All night long did I struggle, in and out of sleep, to resist her entreaties. Just before dawn, I gave into her in a moment of weakness. Immediately, I woke up. Deeply [...]

The Willful Destruction of Government Property

Left standing outside the XO’s stateroom, I felt a bit like Jesus, who’d gotten shuffled from one authority to another, in much the same manner, as each one realized he had no authority over He Who Is. In that one brief moment, I felt as if I were in contact with some incredibly powerful force, [...]

For God’s Sake!

Just then, the Corpsman popped back into sick bay. “I want ya to come with me,“ he commanded. “Your division officer, Lt. Smith, would like to see ya in his stateroom.“ Nervous as hell, I sprang to my feet and followed him down the passageway, to a ladder that led up to officer’s country. While [...]

Taking on the Navy

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I was eventually transferred off the mess decks. Though I’d continued to bathe ’n’ put on clean underclothes daily, it’d been a month since I last changed my pants. Because I had no other pants to wear, I couldn’t throw ’em into the laundry when they got dirty. To protest my [...]

The Nightmare and the Dream

“For four long years,“ Wulf went on to say, “they tried to convince me this way of life is a necessary evil. They almost succeeded until I went to Vietnam, supposedly to stop the spread of Communism, and saw the truth for myself. “It appears they suffer some grand delusion that we are the good [...]