Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Drydock - Episode 291 (Part 1)" video.

  1. Even if the Royal Navy found out about Yamato & Musashi considering the numbers of battleships that the Royal Navy had & the numbers that the USA had. I definitely see them trying to build an answer to Yamato & Musashi. But I'm glad that they didn't find out because I think that with the Essex swarm of air craft carriers being protected by the North Carolinas & Iowas with all the Fletchers was a good & winning combination. There was a REASON that Winston Churchill danced a jig after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. One thing he did know was politics and he knew that the USA was a powder keg & Japan & Germany managed to light the fuse. Americans like their guns for a reason. It makes them feel safer to be able to reply with deadly force. Although some crazy people might walk into a school & start killing kids, if we need our guns they are available. A crazy person could cause just as many deaths driving a loaded dump truck into a school too. Were not going to outlaw dump trucks or our guns. My opinion is that I think all good Americans should have & know how to use modern fire arms! That way if an enemy force manages to somehow land on our shores we have the power to NOT BE HEARDED LIKE CATTLE waiting on our armed forces to do something while people are dying when we can pull out our own assault weapon and defend ourselves. Parking decks being a great place to snipe at the enemy from. My eyes aren't as good as they used to be but like Ching Lee I do have glasses. And I grew up sharp shooting. I may be a little out of practice but after one or two rounds I could easily aim for the head so as not to worry about body armor. In today's political landscape I don't trust the politicians to keep our armed forces as up to date as they need to be. And totally on top of any forseeable threats.
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  2. I worked in Mobile,AL for about 6 months. Commuting within a crew truck making an addition to Austal shipyard driving in from near my Dad's place in Pensacola, FL. We drove past the USS Alabama every day and every time I wanted to go tour the old ship. I had hoped to go aboard right about the time we were done with the addition. BUT someone dropped a heavy piece of metal & I lost the tip of my right handed birdy finger. Ended up not seeing the end of that job. But I did get $10k for the tip off my finger BUT I'd rather have had my whole finger.
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  3. I guess the best thing about Johnny Depp's character "Captain" Jack Sparrow is the fact that he realizes the freedom that being Captain of a ship gives him in that day & age. Not many people saw that & could stand being at sea that long. But in the movie because Jack Sparrow makes that desire for freedom of the sea known, that is what makes him a likable character.
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  4. I've got a rather funny story about lightning as well. We had a female Doberman who was a rather sweet individual named Cooder by my stepfather, Billy. And at the time we were staying in a couple of camper trailers on a 7 acre property in Georgia. Well, a storm had come up & I hadn't realized that Cooder was under my trailer. But the storm was causing flash type lightning every few minutes and evidently one of the flashes was grounded thru the trailer & evidently thru Kooder as well. My only evidence being the dog coming out from under the trailer howling. OmG you could practically hear it in her howls, "struck by lightning struck by lightning!!!" It had given her a jolt but she was OK. After a little love she appeared fine☆ My Mom's Mother actually died from getting struck while hanging out clothes when my Mom was very young. ☆Now, fast forward about a year & a half & we are living on a property in South Carolina building a house. And we have 16 x 32 block basement built & are now doing footings for the rest of the house. But we have the basement covered with a pool tarp & an extension cord from the temporary pole with electricity for lights. Since witnessing what a tornado can do several times when a storm came up, we preferred the basement to the campers we had. Well this one particularly bad storm had gotten us all into the basement. And lightning started striking the temporary pole we had. And the extension cord was wrapped around a metal frame doorway in the basement. It was actually 2 rooms 16 x 16. My Mom had a bed set up in the other room cuz the basement stayed cooler. Well anyway everytime lightning would strike it was blowing sparks thru the extension cord & off of the doorframe. It did this about 3 or 4 times in a matter of minutes & the top of the doorframe was glowing like the eye of an electric stove. Well we lit a few candles & after it was over put a new bulbs in the lamps. And started making sure everything was OK. Well, Kooder was so far under the bed in the other room that we practically had to lift the bed off of her for her to crawl out. She knew what that lightning could do & hid from it the best she could!!
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