A Veterans Day Bravo Zulu To My Shipmates
November 11th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Today is Veterans Day. I am a Navy veteran who served on the greatest ship on earth, the USS Missouri BB63, an Iowa class battleship.
When I was younger, I used to wonder about those old veterans you’d see wearing hats or jackets that declared their service. Back then, I wondered if they were just reliving their glory days.
Now that I am older, I look back on my service in a different way. In fact, I will later dust off one of my old ship’s ball caps as I head out this morning and wear it, to in a way, tell everyone that I served.
Looking back on my service, we were such kids back then. We thought we were worldly. We thought we were ‘old salts’. But we were doing some exciting things. It was a great time of life.
We have some groups set up over on Facebook for USS Missouri sailors as well as for the Division I used to work in. There is also one set up for all former Battleship sailors. It’s interesting to watch the posts and conversations about those things we did all those years ago. In a way we are reliving those days.
On this Veterans Day I salute all my former shipmates, and all those that have served in the armed forces. You guys and gals are truly special.
