tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4844435441000486775.post5412908682045662956..comments2023-10-15T02:51:50.182-05:00Comments on Booze, Broads and Black OIl: Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15179355135317866802noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4844435441000486775.post-73913526023419624232008-09-28T02:46:00.000-05:002008-09-28T02:46:00.000-05:00Blogger,A man after my own heart, as the old sayin...Blogger,<BR/>A man after my own heart, as the old saying goes. The title of your blog “Booze, Broads and Black Oil” is enough to make an old Navyman’s eyes mist up a little bit. During my time in the Navy I really tried hard to participate in the first two things mentioned, but I was a deck rate and I knew the Oil King personally on one of the Destroyers I was on, he would stop by the IC/ Plotting room often and tell me how I had it made in my A/C space, I would go behind the Fire Control switch board and cut him a new piece of toweling, which would almost make him cry, when he recovered from that he would ask me what the movie was going to be that evening. The IC Men would always let me know what the flick was that day. <BR/><BR/>Your blog was too much for me to resist so I felt I had to take a look at what this blog was all about. To my surprise as well as being a Navyman you appear to also be a Conservative. I do not want to over step where I am going here but I like what I see and the attitude that you express, it has been my experience that most Navymen were Conservative and that has always been important, but today it seems to be more important than ever. We need to counteract the Liberals and their philosophy of cradle to grave coddling of the American Citizens. In my opinion the Liberal Democrats want everyone to feel obligated to them for giving as many handouts as they can muster up. This is more like Socialism or Communism than it is the Democracy that I have known most of my life and value a great deal.<BR/><BR/>I have not introduced myself, yet, and I expect I should do that. My name is E. A. Hughes and I am Navy retired as an FTCM(SS) with 24 years service. An essay that I wrote 50 years ago this year titled “Once I Was A Navyman” is posted on your website, actually I added to my original essay in 1978 just prior to my Navy retirement, and this is what is posted. I appreciate your interest as a Navyman in posting this. I have been very gratified that Navymen both old and young seem to like this work. Good luck in your blog.<BR/><BR/>Respectfully,<BR/>E. A. HughesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com