Those are amazing...
My condolences upon your profound loss, Dear FRiend.
Thank you. He was rather amazing. As he once wrote: “... I’m an engineer, an artist, or a U.S. Marine. I’m as comfortable with physics as I am with ballistics or a brush...”
But enough thread hijacking ... Our local high school has since developed a Navy JROTC program and does not seem all paranoid/PC about these things. And this is NOT a rural area, though comfortably south of the Mason-Dixon line.