James P. Bond to Americans:
Learn to code.
Americans to James P. Bond:
Learn to swim.
Regarding my brief remarks in reply 35.
I am not satisfied with the blind group-think of James P. Bond. That he would condemn the ship, while claiming to not condemn the ship.
A good man whom I knew, had served aboard a USCG cutter, such as the Taney, and was both a black gentleman and from Baltimore.
It would never have occurred to my friend to perform a “James P. Bond maneuver for public consumption.”
And, my friend actually did have to learn to swim. He knew what it meant to be on station, waiting to help people lost at whatever point of no return, they found themselves.
Concerning my friend, he served honorably and never advertised nor protested nor invented the modern inventions of the political left, whereby a man wastes a lot of make-up to paint himself to be a victim.
Instead, my friend was simply a decent, noble, yet ordinary man and regular member of the service he had chosen, determined to do his duty.
On that note, thank you, CedarDave, for doing yours, too.