The One-Year Promise to Myself
November 23, 2024 9 CommentsJust about 16 years ago, the USS Fletcher (DD 992) was getting ready to pull back into San Diego after a six-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf. I remember so clearly the night before we pulled back in. Everyone aboard the ship shared the excitement and happy anticipation for what would happen the next morning. […]
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November 23, 2024 No CommentsI’m sitting at the Commodore computer, likely chatting to people over AOL and my dad comes up the stairs and peers into the study from the hallway. He asks me if I’ve been thinking any more about the R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) program. I’d mentioned it maybe a few days or weeks before after […]
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