“Like loyalty, you can’t buy it. Like honesty, you can’t be born with it. Like common sense you can’t inherit it. Like true friendship, you can’t see it. Like heaven, you can’t rent it. you can’t touch or smell it, but because you have been a Shipmate through the years, you know what it is.”
Kamiseya, Japan – Station Newspaper, February 27, 1959
Station HYPO 
23 May 2025 at 08:28
Awesome quote, thanks for posting it. This will go into my funeral preparation archives for when I’m called to render final remarks for a passing shipmate.
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23 May 2025 at 10:35
Remembering shipmates with whom I served who died in the fire there nearly 60 years ago, on Sept. 24, 1965. I will never forget the awful night they died while others of us who tried to save them were fortunate to escape. May their forever young souls rest in peace.
— Jack Jones, CT2, USN, 1962-68
jackjones@frontiernet.net
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