Ok Jim I will play. Now since I am in the Navy I have been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but one of my fondest memories is while I was on the USS Nimitz we were import Thailand and my buddy Shawn Krabenhoft (Krabby) and I were sitting at an outside bar having a few beers and playing connect four with the bar maid, when this Brit sat down next to me and said Hows life in the Colonies?Krabby just knew that I was going to swing right there but I kept my cool and ignored him. He jabbed me in the ribs again and said I you a question Yank. Hows life in the colonies? Now Krabby was getting ready for a fight. There were 4 of them and 2 of us, and he just knew that I was not going to take any more. That is when I calmly turned to the guy, look him dead in the eye and said look you limey bastard we whooped your butt in 1776, again in 1812 came in and bailed you out in WWI again in WWII and if you dont watch your step I am going to whoop your butt right here and now. Ok so there was a lot of um more colorful language in there but you get the point. Anyway Krabbys chaw was on the bar as I had a habit of getting us into trouble and starting a brawl or 2, but this Brit just sat back with a stunned look on his face ordered Krabby and I a beer and told me that he was looking for a fight but when I turned to him so calmly and made my statement that he new that he and his friends might have bitten off more than they could chew. LOL. So there is my sea story for the day, I have been in the Navy for 17 years and the adventures and miss adventures that I have had I think that I could write a book.
I have a few that are pretty cool, but the one experience that sticks out the most is when I went to El Salvadore for a week. I am not as well travelled as Shawn is, so this was a real eye opener for me. If everyone visited a third world country just once in there life, they would see their whole world alot different. They would realize just how good they really have it.
Jim, you are very correct in that statement, I have been all over the pacific and I truly appreciate what we have in America, just one more reson I do what I do.
