| Subject: Why Submarines?
I might well have been the only Kidd in the 5th grade who knew that he wanted to ride The Boats. I read a book called 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by the French Novelist and Visionary, Jules Verne--and he hooked me, clean through both gills! I knew then that I would join the Navy ASAP and if they would have me, I'd ride Submarines. (Of course Verne didn't say that I'd be hopping gravities and 'pearl diving' the Sanitary Tanks--but even that did not discourage me. I managed to ride 7 Smoke Boats and (wonder of wonders) they even let me be COB of my last one! |
Why Submarines?
