Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "USS Bainbridge - Guide 283" video.

  1. All these little ships that came and went. Men ate on them, tried to stay awake at watch on them, slept on them and shit on them, all wrapped up in their metal bodies. On a routine basis, those on watch saw the sun come up and go down, it's light stretching out over or receding from the oceans surface and coloring the clouds. They did their jobs on them in the heat of the day and the cold of the night, sweating or shivering in their bunks depending on if their compartment was an ice box or an oven. Men stood watch on them them with the rain pelting down and the sea in an agitated state. They pitched about inside these tiny ships as the ocean pitched their ship about. They threw up in her and on her and over the side. They missed their wives and girl friends, their friends and their families and they waited out the days until they could come home again and get off that damned little ship. Then ... on occasion ... they tried to kill the men on other ships and risked being killed on theirs. Ships broke up, men burned, men drowned and men were taken to the bottom of the sea trapped in little compartments as their ship sank. All these men on all these little ships ... that came ... and went ... .
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