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Hi everybody!
((((HUGS))))

[Publius]

Great concert last night. The Tchaikovsky trio was one for the ages. The Beethoven was a lot of fun, too.

Back to Rockumentary next weekend.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...you and Lynn-Dah have a good day? Did you venture forth, or stay by the A/C.

Which reminds me...did you get ALL the “broken” things fixed? Plenty of hot water now?

[neversweat]

Hello and thank you!

My father was a ‘Coastie’ during WWII. He served as a carpenters Mate. The US’s ‘blue water’ navy doesn’t have carpenters mates, they ‘borrow’ them from the Coasties.

Of course, I was a ‘blue water’ Navy recruit and of course I learned all the traditional razzes about Coasties. So my first liberty at home I asked my old man, “Were you really more than six feet tall when you joined the Coast Guard?”

Rumor had it that the Coast Guard required all enlisted personnel to be over six feet tall in case the boats sank. Dad’s response?

“Remind me to write this ungrateful Tarheel out of my will!”

He himself called the Coast Guard the “Ankle-Deep Navy”.

Don’t tell him, but I have always considered Coasties to be far better ‘blue water’ sailors than anyone in the ‘regular Navy’.

Thanks for the post!