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He freplyspang shaped my "sense of purpose" and all my patriotic feelings. So I'm going to begin this with a section from an earlier story that attempted to put all that in perspective. Then we'll get back to the stuff going freplyspang on here: '. . . My dad (JP) was Naval Academy, Class of '40, I think. As an Ensign, he was assigned to BuShips to review the engineering designs of the USS NEW JERSEY after Pearl Harbor and was assigned as one of the Engineering Officers on the NJ from freplyspang the day it was launched from the Philadelphia shipyard until it anchored in Tokyo Bay. All my life, I heard stories about being a Naval Officer. All my life, I was raised to be a Naval Officer. It was never a matter for discussion; never a concept to be questioned. JP retired as a Lieutenant but never became a civilian in a lot of ways. He was always a Naval Officer and rode me like a clumsy snipe Recruit.
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