[PhilDragoo]

Admiral Pond refused Captain Beach's request to maintain four boilers lit--after all, economy was necessary so the admiral could go ashore to par-tay with the U.S. Consul.

Then when the Navy in characteristic form crucified the wrong man for doing nothing wrong, Pond took a powder--and Beach covered for him.

We may remember these pre-nuclear-terrorism days as the lull before the tsunami.

Let not pc and fear of the "Arab shtreet" stay Bush's hand in giving Khatami's centrifuges a few hundred JDAMs a la B-2 Spirit Overnight Overflight.

Run Silent, Run Deep is the first of a trilogy by Edward L. Beach, followed by Dust on the Sea, and Cold is the Sea.

Interview with Capt. Edward L. Beach USNA '39

Biography of Capt. Edward L. Beach (b 1918, d 2002)

Captain Edward L. Beach Jr.: 'His Work Will Live On'

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo.

Thanks for the links on Capt. Beach, Jr.

Let not pc and fear of the "Arab shtreet" stay Bush's hand in giving Khatami's centrifuges a few hundred JDAMs a la B-2 Spirit Overnight Overflight.

Amen to that!

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!