Best Shipmates Poems

I remember as if it were yesterday
Liberty call. Time to go ashore
Shipmates off to drink and play
Bars and women, who could ask for more.

In the Texas bar on Saturday night
Trouble wasn't hard to find
Backs together left to right
To cover each other from behind.

We never thought...

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Sitting on the old black oak, where we used to fish together,
lost in the past, I think back, and remember a better day.
You wrote to me about your new ship, and new friends,
and your new Pontiac, with only twenty-two payments left to pay.

The morning's rain...

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