Just a thought this Memorial Day Weekend.
To my Shipmates on the Final Cruise.
The water has parted and into to it you have slipped. From wooden ships to steel decked behemoths, from the depths below to the skies above. The Boot and the Old Salt, first and last deployment. Those of tarred pony tails, to Cracker Jacks of old and new.
You are not forgotten, stand the watch untill properly relieved!
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"I fly this plane for my country, when it stops flying it's not my fault, it's the countrys." CDR Fred "Bear" Vogt. The Last Skipper of VF-33's, F-4's.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. -- Author Unknown
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