Field days, ORS boards, OPs PMs, Steamers, buddies, shipmates, friends. I remember all these things, I spent my youth on submarines. So if you ask me I will boast, the men I knew stood out from most. Volunteers who stood the test, and wear the dolphins on their chest. And though I'm old and getting gray, I'm still as proud as hell to say.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.
It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Ernie 'Boom Boom' Harkness, Bob Sweet, Leland Engle, and Smitty. Trapped at the bottom of a quarry, all they could think of to do was smile in bewilderment at the predicament they were in. Italy Heading back home with a dolphin escorting us out of the Med and making sure we never return Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.