FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Chester M "Whitey" Mack ~ April 1, 2013

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Easter, Luv...hope your visit is going as well can be expected.

I keep thinking about “Whitey” being 6’6” on a submarine. Ouch!!

[mylife]

Now you are sailing my watery bit of the world.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sounds like you had both an inspirational and busy, exciting day.

[ConorMacNessa]

A Happy and Blessed Easter, Mayor!

Your Lesson this evening rings true with me. For many years I served as cantor at the 7:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at our Parish. This Mass was celebrated in Latin by our Pastor Emeritus, Msgr. Robert Keesler, who was then in his nineties. Msgr. Keesler was a vigorous and dynamic preacher even at his advanced age and a steadfast champion of traditional Catholic doctrine. I looked forward to his weekly Homilies with great anticipation.

One Sunday morning I showed up for Mass and Msgr. Keesler was accompanied by a young priest I had never seen before and have not seen since. The young priest gave the Homily and his text was on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the Gospel reading for that day. This is a Parable that I had never understood. My Father always cited it to me with respect to one of my younger brothers, who was wild, to say the least, in his younger days.

What that young priest taught me in that Homily was that Salvation is gratuitous - it is not earned by our works, as righteous as they may be, but by the gratuitous love and supreme sacrifice of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

To make a long story short, I was ultimately able to reconcile with my brother, who has turned out to be a good man. My Father, whose position I had opposed for many years, was right after all.



Where are the survivors of the massacre at Benghazi? The silence of the Obama Regime on this question is deafening!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Maxine knows her stuff!

[mylife]

Whitey Mack had balls off steel.

He figured out the Crazy Ivan, and gave Ivan the finger

“Ivan Attitude” was kind of a boats mascot

[Kathy in Alaska]

And he even has a Ballad named for him!

[mylife]

Ahh the Horse and Cow

[mylife]

He was a pretty remarkable guy.

Most of it will never be printed.

[luvie]

Happy Easter to you! (((hugs)))

I’ll bet he had more than a few bumps on his poor head during those tours!

[ConorMacNessa]

I just read a portion of the "Blind Man's Bluff." WOW!!

Just WOW!!! Thanks so much for posting this, Ladies!



Where are the survivors of the massacre at Benghazi? The silence of the Obama Regime on this question is deafening!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kathy in Alaska]

In fact, everything about this 37 year old commander was big. His towering, 240-pound frame didn't quite fit through the Lapon's low hatches and narrow passageways, and he was almost always bent over in the control room, littered overhead with a maze of piping and wire.

From the book "Blind Mans Bluff".

[mylife]

Buy the book.

I was shocked at what was made public.

Sherry Sontag must have had pretty good talents to get that close.

http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/dp/006097771X

[Kathy in Alaska]

Me too....I think I might need this book. Hope it’s in Kindle.

And it is!

[mylife]

Whitey was a trip.

[mylife]

“With wry irony he sported a pair of home made Russian Dolphins beside his American Dolphins”

Yeah that’s the way he was

[mylife]

Capt Mack had great admiration to the brothers of the Dolphin

[ConorMacNessa]

“With wry irony he sported a pair of home made Russian Dolphins beside his American Dolphins”

I guess you could say he had "counted coup" on them!



Where are the survivors of the massacre at Benghazi? The silence of the Obama Regime on this question is deafening!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[mylife]

Whitey Mack was never skeered of his adversary’s, but he did admire them.

[ConorMacNessa]

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!


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Must retire – the 0445 Reveille approaches relentlessly.

The Bugler, his grim visage replete with an evil sneer, already mounts the parapet.

"Do poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes!"
(King Lear, Act III, Scene iv)



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Good night, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America!

Godspeed our Troops around the Globe – especially those in harm’s way – by virtue of their service and sacrifice we continue to live in Freedom!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)