The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.
—James Yorke
Sunday, October 29, 2023
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Post #3198
How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
—Anne Frank
Sunday, October 08, 2023
Post #3197
There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday, October 01, 2023
Post #3196
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
—Mark Twain
Friday, September 29, 2023
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Post #3195
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.
—George Bernard Shaw
—George Bernard Shaw
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Post #3194
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
—Mark Twain
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Sunday, September 10, 2023
Post #3193
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family: but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
—Willa Sibert Cather
Saturday, September 09, 2023
Remembering Ben Akers, BTC - A Few Words From A Shipmate
December 19, 1968 - November 28, 2018
He was "Ben" to his shipmates. We served together in "B" Division onboard The USS Dubuque between 1987 and 1989, stationed at Sasebo, Japan. Ben was ten years my younger and ten times the BT.
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
—Thomas Szasz
It's normal for us not to be able to remember everyone we ever served with, when and where. For me, Ben Akers was easy to remember because he was hands down the hardest working Hole Snipe I ever knew. He was strong, tireless, resourceful, and not afraid to get dirty. He had a kind of quick, dry wit about him, as I recall. Even tempered, he spoke with a Western Pennsylvania dialect. Akers was the last person I ever heard use "yinz" in a sentence. He was a 4.0 Sailor. Squared away. His "gig line" was straight. Pick your metaphor, but Ben Akers was born to be a BT in The US Navy. I was honored to serve with him.
So, since the last time I saw Ben Akers, a lot has changed. The introduction of the World Wide Web was a biggie. I tried to search him out many years ago, but nothing came back. I remembered him again just yesterday, so I sent out another search. This time I got the sad news of his sudden passing back in 2018. Condolences to his widow, and his family. Jimmy Buffett wrote;
He's somewhere on the ocean now A place he oughta be With one hand on the starboard rail He's wavin' back at me
Fair Winds and Following Seas, Shipmate.
―Strasser, BT2
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Sunday, September 03, 2023
Post #3192
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
― Mark Twain
Saturday, September 02, 2023
Jimmy Buffett Has "Crost the Bar"
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December 25, 1946 - September 01, 2023
Be good and you will be lonesome.
―Mark Twain
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Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's What Living is to Me.
―Jimmy Buffett
―Jimmy Buffett
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
I've been listening to Jimmy Buffett's stories since The Great Filling Station Holdup. Inspired! I wanted to be a Sailor so I joined The Navy. I wanted to hang out on the beach so I spent a year in Costa Rica - on the bum. Everywhere I've been, the wit and wisdom of Jimmy Buffett was right there with me, and I thank God for that.
Breathe in, Breathe Out, Move On
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Sunday, August 27, 2023
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent, but yet a Character