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)
Monday, April 13, 2009
BRAVO ZULU, NAVY SEALs!!
I must have known something dramatic of a naval description was about to happen when I posted yesterday's blurb here. When I was on active duty, I got friendly with a number of Navy SEAL team members and Underwater Demolition Team frogpersons. Truly awesome physical specimens, every one, they could party all night and then in the morning run eight miles up the beach and eight miles back, then eat a four-egg omelet and down a quart of milk.
Yesterday's feat of derring-do by a team of SEALs in taking on and whacking those pathetic Somali "pirates" made me proud to think I once wore a Naval uniform -- even if I was just a ship driver.
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