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In honor of this weekend, a former shipmate and respected mentor sent me a note that he authorized me to share. It’s a good one.
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In May of 2001, I was serving on the Navy Staff and, in addition to my regular duties, was part of the rotation of Navy Captains [...]
I think I’ve mentioned before how really neat it was to see “any sailor” letters out there at sea during OIF. It was a long deployment, with month after month of hard work and, after a while, too-familiar faces. Anything new was welcome, especially something that felt of home – a place so far [...]
I got a thoughtful letter from a young architect a few months back, a fellow pondering a career change:
I’m sure you have received messages like this before so I will attempt to be brief, and probably fail miserably. I came across your blog a bit randomly as I searched for more information on [...]
I was looking for something else last night, and ran across an old letter. It was from my old man to me, sent about two weeks and a bit into my plebe summer at the Severn River Trade School.
I was not a particularly good plebe, as my first class detail never tired of [...]
Got a nice note from an occasional lurker I thought I’d share:
Lex–Thanks for a thought provoking and very entertaining forum, I check in and lurk everyday.
I just listened to your KCET interview and really enjoyed the exchange.
I am a pilot for Polar Air Cargo, and as such have had the privelege [...]
Occasional reader Greg has an entertaining question:
I’m working on the music selections for my wedding reception. Now, I am on strict orders to have this completed by Monday even though the big day is the following Saturday. I’m a few songs short and I was hoping you might suggest a couple of tunes, [...]
Some mail you like getting – other mail?
Not so much – under the title “hypocritical injure congresswoman” – (I wonder if there’s a random name generator):
Hello,
Life Should be Full of Luxuries, yet, only a handful of people can afford the finest products, the luxuries of the elite. We are committed to [...]
Got a nice note I thought I’d share. Because you know me: I’m all about sharing -
Dear Sir:
My wife and I were having dinner at a restaurant when I launched into telling her about something I had read that day on your web site. (Oh, this wasn’t the first time this had [...]
Got a gratifying note in the virtual in box:
Damn you! I just stumbled onto Rhythms yesterday and I haven’t gotten anything done in two days as I’ve been reading your story.
I’m a civilian so a lot of the jargon and technical details go by me but I think I still grasp the [...]
This time from occasional reader Tomas, who’s visiting in Argentina:
So I’m down here, in lovely Argentina, living for a while. Things being elatively cheap down here, I decided last year to try for my private pilot’s license. This past April second was the big day; I took and passed both the written and [...]
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"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
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