Posted on 01/07/2005 10:32:01 PM PST by snippy_about_it
"The ship has just finished two extended tours. They were on their way to Australia for some r and r. Then the ship is scheduled for a major refitting. This lack of information sucks.
Nuclear Submarine Runs Aground South of Guam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316627/posts?q=1&&page=251
FReeper rsobin has a son that is aboard.
I pinged the Canteen and am pinging you.
Hiya, Sam!!
We are getting snow today!! Coming straight down, big soggy flakes splattering the joint up! LOL
Howdy ma'am
Nice weather here today. Forecast high lower 50's.
Sulphur Island Bump for the Foxhole on a lazy Saturday Morning.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Thanks for the ping.
I'd say somebodys career in the Navy just came to an end.
These reads are always so moving. God I love these kind of individuals . . . America's best!
He avoided discussion of his war record saying only that the real heros were the men who gave their lives for their country.
I think I learned more about my father and uncle's war record during the reading of their respective eulogy's than in all the time they were here with me.
"People refer to us as heroes--I personally don't look at it that way. I just think that I happened to be at a certain place at a certain time and anybody on that island could have been in there--and we certainly weren't heroes--and I speak for the rest of them as well. That's the way they thought of themselves also."
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
Sir Frank Dyson, KBE (1868—1939), Ninth Astronomer Royal from (1910—33)
Dyson worked for the Royal Observatories (in Greenwich and Edinburgh) throughout his life. Graduating from Trinity College Cambridge in 1889 he first worked on problems associated with gravitational theory before becoming chief assistant at Greenwich Observatory in 1894. His work at Greenwich included managing the Carte du Ciel project, which in turn led him to investigate the proper motion of stars (this work would eventually lead others to discover that our galaxy is rotating).
In 1906 he left Greenwich to become Astronomer Royal in Edinburgh only to return in 1910 as Astronomer Royal in England. In his time at the Observatory Dyson's work included studies of the solar corona, stellar parallaxes and participation in numerous eclipse expeditions including Portugal (1900), Sumatra, Mauritius (1901), Tunisia (1905), Sweden (1914), Sobral in Brazil (1919) - the same eclipse that was observed by Eddington from the Island of Principe off the west coast of Africa and used to confirm General Relativity, Australia (1922), Sumatra (1926), England (Giggleswick, 1927), Malaya (1929). He was also hugely interested in time, and was involved in setting up the 'six pips' signal first broadcast in 1924. After the first world war Dyson was involved in re-establishing international co-operation in science.
Hi miss Feather. Enjoying your weekend?
lazy Saturday Morning
A good thing...NO make that a VERY good thing.
Back later, I'm off to hunt down the cunning Ham and cheese omlet. Wish me luck!
Hiya Sam
Dang sound good, heck sounds a lot better than the bowl of Crunchy Nuggets I had while perusing the daily Foxhole Chatter.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Roger that . . . thanks.
Your words about your experience and your thoughts are so very moving. My screen got blurry. Thank you for sharing this important piece of your life with us. I can see how seeing that place would be something you could never forget.
This will sound really weird, but really there is no death. God is God of the living, Jesus said.
This is far from sounding weird, in fact it sheds a light in the dark. It makes me remember standing on hallowed ground at the civil war battlefields, the revolutionary battlefields and Arlington. You do 'feel' them there, they live on and I expect they are just waiting for us.
So, folks, don't sweat the "death" business, and never scold or belittle anyone who loves you. Especially dogs. Most especially your family.
You are an excellent teacher. You see, there is a reason you are still here.
As for dogs, they too are most certainly placed here by God and a wonderful gift to us.
Thanks for the ping Jet.
rsobin, we thank your son for his service.
Good luck. You sure eat good on the weeekends!
We are grateful for you uncle's service. Thanks for sharing Coleus.
Your welcome Sam. I know we've covered this before, you did an in depth thread on the battle and one on the flag raising but as with most WWII battles there are so many stories to tell.
Good morning Aeronaut, wherever you are. ;-)
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