The Navigator
Mar. 12th, 2004 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arisbeWho your father was might not be so important. But how you remember your father, indeed how you choose to remember your father, may be very important indeed. I was delighted to find this on Kinky Friedman's site:
Tom's war is long over. Indeed, the whole era seems gone like the crews who never came home, lost forever among the saltshaker stars. And yet, when the future may look its darkest, there sometimes occurs an oddly comforting moment when, with awkward grace, the shadow of a silver plane flies inexplicably close to my heart. One more mission for the navigator.
Was that worth the click, or am I just a silly old sentimentalist with half a shot of Jura single malt too much in my skin? (Cause half a shot is all I could see this side of the toaster.)
Tom's war is long over. Indeed, the whole era seems gone like the crews who never came home, lost forever among the saltshaker stars. And yet, when the future may look its darkest, there sometimes occurs an oddly comforting moment when, with awkward grace, the shadow of a silver plane flies inexplicably close to my heart. One more mission for the navigator.
Was that worth the click, or am I just a silly old sentimentalist with half a shot of Jura single malt too much in my skin? (Cause half a shot is all I could see this side of the toaster.)
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toaster?
Date: 2004-03-12 10:22 pm (UTC)but why dare we not look , lovecraftian tones
echo chamber, BEYOND THE TOASTER....
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Date: 2004-03-12 10:55 pm (UTC)'Sides - he's very funny.
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Date: 2004-03-13 12:12 am (UTC)In memory of my own father
Date: 2004-03-13 09:24 am (UTC)Because of circumstances that often happen in war, my father's ship and crew had to serve a double tour of duty in the Pacific Campaign. They were 19 months straight at sea without touching land. He was a radar man, the one who actually aims the guns, on the USS Boston. How he got the job is a story in itself. They managed to shoot down enough of their targets, and managed to be lucky enough also, that they never once got hit by so much as a peice of shrapnel the whole time. Only one other ship in US naval history had led so charmed an existance, that being the USS Constitution. He never spoke of his war experience, except in the last 2 years of his life. I'm so glad he did. I've got to go wipe away some tears now.