Poems
By My Children
They won first prize. It was many years
ago |
A
Winter Afternoon
A poem by my wife - Dec. 2000 |
Holy
Loch, Scotland
Days of the Boomers
(Some great images from COB Scott,
author of Boats
'n Ponies.) |
More
Holy Loch
From Bob Barbee MMCS(SS) USN (Ret) |
SUBMARINE
SEA STORIES
From April 2000 ALL HANDS MAGAZINE |
Going the Last
Seven Miles - The Bathyscaph Trieste Story
By Captain Don Walsh '54, USN (Ret.) |
SILENT SERVICE
= NOT NOTICED
Commentary on a Jan. 2002 speech by
Harry Levins |
Submarine Veteran
and Bride
Re-new Marriage
Vows on 50th Anniversary
From COMSUBPAC - June 2000 |
SERIOUS QUALMS
IN CLOSE QUARTERS by Elaine Donnelly
Addressing the issue of women on submarines
|
| Review of a Submarine
Movie by a Surface Sailor |
AN
AFTER BATTERY RAT
Dex Armstrong's major mind-dump of
those old diesel boat days, |
THE
GOAT ON THE BOAT
Possibly the number one premo no s**ter
of all time.
From the USS
ARCHERFISH |
Submariners
Never Cheat and Seldom Lie
A ride on HMS TURBULENT - Copied from
the London Telegraph |
| Sailor
Blues Author unkown |
The
Golden Rivet
Submarine Humor - Not
PC or for delicate eyes. via Ron
Martini |
Edwin
Kiefer's SUBMARINE JOURNAL
Books and more from a WW-II Submariner |
The
DBF Flag Caper (External link) from Grog Carpenter's
USS
MENHADEN (SS-377) SEA STORIES (An excellent, extensive collection) |
| Spritz's
Navy Submarine Training in WWII |
IN
THEIR OWN WORDS
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF
THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY
via SUBMARINE VETERANS
OF WW-II LOS ANGELES AREA CHAPTER |
What
Did You Do In The Cold War Daddy?
Copied from the VFW Online Magazine. |
If
I wasn't a gunner, I wouldn't be here.
About SSBN Gunners
A speech by Melville H. Lyman Captain
U.S.Navy |
| From
The Other Side by Patrick Camunes |
| Still
The Noblest Calling by J.D. Wetterling |
FATHER'S
DAY --- AT THE WALL
Copied from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
|
Literary
Works For The Wall
via The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
Page aka THE
WALL |
The
Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry...A good enough reason
to be living in the boonies |
| One
More Peaceful Moment by Del Stone Jr. |
| Links to my late Cousin Bob Harrison's
Poems can be found HERE |
|
Sea
Fever by John Masefield "I must go down to the seas
again..." |
| Crossing
The Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Lost
Harbor by Leslie Nelson Jennings "Sailor rest your oar" |
| Bright
Harbor by Daniel Whitehead Hickey "...he loved old ships..." |
| New
Duty Station by Mike Hemming |
| There
Is A Poetry In Ships' Names by Fletcher Pratt |
| Once
I was a Navyman by E.A Hughes FTCM(SS) USN(Ret) |
| If
Winter Comes - From John Lane's Australian WWII POW website |
| FIDDLER's
GREEN Painting and Poems |
| The
Ballad of Blasphemous Bill by Robert Service |
| Song
For The Squeeze Box by Theodore Roethke |
| Just
A common Soldier by A. Lawrence Vaincourtn |
| It
Is The Soldier by Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC |
| The
Spirt of the American Soldier by Beverly Cole Haire |
|
The
Old Man and The Sailor by Bob Harrison |
| THE
VETERAN by Bob Harrison |
| Me
Bloody Mates by Philip "Buzz" Solomon R.A.N. |
"We few, we happy
few, we band of brothers..."
King Henry V, Act. IV, Sc. III by William
Shakespeare |
| Tommy
by Rudyard Kipling |
| TAPS
-
It's origins |
| HIGH
FLIGHT by John Gillespie Magee |
| In
Time by Major Michael Davis O'Donnell 1 Jan 1970 Dak To,
Vietnam |
| In
Flanders Field by Lt. Col. John McCrae |
| Sailor's
Prayer by Robert L. Harrison |
| Amazing
Grace by Reverend John Newton (1725-1807) |
| "Oh
rest your oars and let me drift" by Sarah Orne Jewett |
| The
Laws Of the Navy by Admiral R. A. Hopwood, RN (Ret)
|
| Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Poem:
Mortality
(External Link) |
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