GRANDPA'S NAVY: November 2014

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Veteran's Day

I will never know the full story of what you saw or what you did in service to our country, but I am grateful to be the grandson of a veteran. I will always look up to you as I always have, and honor your memory by keeping the past alive.

Thank you.

H.N.S. 1919-1995

Served 1942-1975

THE SUBMARINER

"Only the submariner realizes to what extent an entire ship depends on him as an individual. To a landsman this is not understandable and, sometimes, it is even difficult for us to comprehend, but it is so.

A submarine at sea is a different world in herself and in consideration of the protracted and distant operations of submarines, the Navy must place responsibility and trust in the hands of those who take such ships to sea.

In each submarine there are men who, in the hour of emergency or peril at sea, can turn to each other. These men are ultimately responsible to themselves and to each other for all aspects of operation of their submarine. They are the crew. They are the ship.

This is perhaps the most difficult and demanding assignment in the Navy. There is not an instant during his tour as a submariner that he can escape the grasp of responsibility. His privileges in view of obligations are almost ludicrously small, nevertheless, it is the spur which has given the Navy its greatest mariners--the men of the Submarine Service.

It is a duty which richly deserves the proud and time honored title of: SUBMARINER." ~~Blow and Vent

GRANDPA'S NAVY

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Veteran's Day

Shipmates

USS DACE SS-247

USS Menhaden SS-377

REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR

MY OTHER HERO

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