[Last week you heard about my experience watching meteor showers aboard a destroyer escort in the Caribbean. Now, flash forward about 35 years. "Tonight is supposed to be the best night of the meteor showers," she says. "Let's stay up to watch them." "I have an even better idea," says He ... who then proceeds... Continue Reading →
The MidWatch
[The summer of 1967. I was, against every fiber of will in my19 year old body, enrolled in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Candidate program at Yale University. I was fulfilling my obligation for 6 weeks active duty, serving onboard a destroyer escort--can't remember the name of it, godammit-- in the Caribbean on an August... Continue Reading →