In a message dated 10/19/2000 1:04:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
millerls@ado13.com writes:
<< As bad as it is, they're
doing an incredible job. The very fact that these people are still
functioning is beyond my comprehension. >>
Thanks Larry!!! When my son was in the Navy, he served aboard the USS John
Paul Jones, also an Arleigh Burke Class destroyer, as was the USS Cole. He
spent a tour of duty in the Persian Gulf, and I was fortunate enough to have
flown to Honolulu, board his Destroyer and sail with him back to San Diego.
I am not surprised by the above statement, that these young men are doing an
incredible job. Having lived alongside these young sailors for nearly a
week, having observed them as an outsider, I can only say that I was duly
impressed with our servicemen. Polite beyond need, dedicated to their task,
skilled to the job, I knew after being there that we were in good hands.
It is saddening when a tragic deliberate act of terrorism takes so many
wonderful boys, even more so when I feel a whisper, only a whisper, of
kinship with them because of my scant week aboard the John Paul Jones, and my
proud stance as a father of one of theirs. I hope that when we discover who
the perpetrators are, that we throw our full might of armament against them
and theirs and desecrate the earth upon which they stand. Regardless of who
is hiding them.
--David C.
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