Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from it more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum. (John Updike, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, 1989, Ch. 6)
Saturday, April 11, 2009
At Sea, 1968
Several months ago, I was rummaging through a box of old photos from my active Navy days, and I found some shots I took during a fleet gunnery exercise off the Atlantic seaboard, of which the above are a sampling. The ship was USS Suffolk County (LST-1173). I was a lieutenant (jg) serving as main propulsion assistant. The year was 1968, Exercise "Exotic Dancer." The chaps in the pictures are (from the top): Sanders, Gunner's Mate First Class; Cantu, Seaman, and Bullock, Seaman. I wonder where these guys are now.
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