We used to have a Veteran’s ping list but I haven’t seen it in years. Any idea who held/holds it?
Hm. I haven’t seen it in a while...now that you mention it, it seems odd that there isn’t one.
We have a pretty wide range of vets on here, too. The whole gamut, with a lot of experience. I tell a lot of stories...I like telling them as all sailors do...:)
But I really enjoy hearing them from others. I have a couple whose paths I came close to crossing...
I was telling a story once in this forum about a woman in Naples, Italy who was nicknamed “Humpty Dumpty” for her penchant for sitting on a stone wall near a castle where sailors used to pass (or go directly to...:) on liberty. She was a singularly overweight, unattractive woman, whose specialty was a sex act with her false teeth removed (or so I was told)
Every sailor knew of her, even if they had never seen her. Young, impressionable sailors were told on their first deployments not to go near The Castle, and to give Humpty Dumpty a wide berth.
Then, someone posted a picture of her, and I thought “OMG! That’s her!” There was some discussion, and an older sailor chimed in to inform us that there were more than a few iterations of Humpty Dumpty dating back to WWII, but they all occupied that spot on that low stone wall and were known by the same moniker.
Point is, this er...unusual point of common reference is just an example of an entertaining and, if I may say, educational occurrence here on FR.
It is just one of the reasons I have come back year after year...:)