Re: SooooOOOOOOOOOO ?

[ABLE1 <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/4/2021 12:32 AM, Jim Davis wrote:
> I Don't know much about trailers, trucks and hitches but I share your sentiments regarding all the people who have given their lives for this country and what it is supposed to stand for. People talk about "heroes". Though I did join the US Navy at the age of 17, I never saw any action and actually had a fabulous, experience. It never occurred to me when I enlisted that I might be put in a situation where i could lose my life. I didn't join up out of any sort of patriotism. It was just something that I had wanted to do since I was about 12 years old.
> .
> I attained a Atomic top secret clearance and became and cryptographer in communications. We were tracking Soviet submarines off the coast of Florida in the Bahama Island. So I spent about 2 and half years in a tropical paradise. In between tracking submarines I learned to scuba dive, learned spelunking. Represented the US Navy in the world wide spearfishing competition. Learned how to handle and shoot a 45 and M! accurately. Spent a week every couple of months living and sleeping on the beach. Learned to water ski. Spear fished barracuda, shark, tarpon, moray eel, and many kind of edible fish Started a rock and roll band to play for the enlisted men and officers and wound up playing for about 2000 people at a US space satellite success party. Occasionally take a trips to Miami Beach or Nassau in the Bahamas. etc, etc, etc . . . . . . . .
> So it took a number of years of reading, hearing stories from people who had seen action for me to realize what heroes those are who knowingly go into battle  willing to forfeit their lives for their belief in this nation. I can't estimate how much money I've donated to various veteran causes through the years. I sometime think it may come from a little feeling of guilt because of what I experienced.
> The men I admire the most are those who fought in WWII. I just can't imagine what they experienced at Iwo Jima and at Normandy. I had tears running down my face the whole time when I visited Normandy. Same when I visited Hawaii USS Arizona Memorial.  I've only watched Saving Private Ryan once and won't ever watch it again. I live near two of the biggest WWII cemeteries. I avoid driving by them because I tear up every time.
> Heroes ... TRUE heroes.. every one of them.


Hi Jim,

I as well signed up at 17 in the US Navy.  I ended up on the 7th Fleet
Flag Ship off the coast of Vietnam as well as other places.  Loved it.

I don't think that anything I could type would come close to matching
your words above.  Good job, Thank You for your SERVICE and have a great
weekend.

Les