The Glade 4.0

One proud Navy mom reporting:



Great Lake Naval Station. Jake graduated from boot camp on October 9th. I am so glad I was able to share the experience. The whole thing was quite impressive. He had so many stories.

He goes to Pensacola for air crew training then to Japan for two years.

Go Jake!

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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” - Pearl S. Buck

Hmm. What's the proper benediction, here? Smooth sailing?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Congrats. I'm sure he'll make you and his nation proud.

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The Dude abides.

Awesome! Congrats momma!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

A hearty congratulations to both of you.

The wide world awaits, adventure and duty shine their beacons. May he enjoy the experience a d come back to you healthy, happy, and a little wiser.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

May I add a hearty /second to this?

Godspeed!

Fair winds and following seas and long may your big jib draw.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Congratulations!

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"I've got twenty ways to tell you shut the f*ck up / nineteen of them are twenty-four bars long / the other one goes: SHUT THE F*CK UP" - Aesop Rock
"There is no God higher than truth." -- Gandhi
Formerly: Tulamian

Wow, he looks sharp!

Go Jake!

Congratulations to the both of you!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Sailing...takes me away.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Godspeed to your son and to you.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Eternal Father strong to save
Whose arm has bound the restless wave
Who bids the mighty ocean deep
It's own appointed limits keep
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in Peril on the sea

Oh Christ whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word
Who walkest on the foamy deep
And how amidst the storm did sleep
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in Peril on the sea

O Spirit, whom the Father sent
To spread abroad the firmament.
Oh wind of heaven, by Thy might
Save all who dare the eagle's flight.
And keep them by thy watchful care
From every peril in the air

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Congratulations to you both!

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice R. Longworth

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash Williams

Congratulations! I had been meaning to ask, but just too darn busy lately. I'm glad you made it to graduation, I'm sure he was too.

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Gorse

Congrats to your son.

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Raell Kromwell

Grats! My 'nephew' graduated from there last month and is now in submariner school.

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

Congratulations to you and Jake =)

Fair winds and following seas; that's the one I was mentally searching for. Thanks!

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

That's beautiful and going on my prayer board. Thanks DE!

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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” - Pearl S. Buck

For me nothing will compare to the experience of hearing the Naval Academy Glee Club singing it in the chapel.

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Gorse

No problem

We sang it just about every weekend using various verses. There are at least 19 that I know of, but the original 3 all refer to the sea, and the first added verse was for airmen (the thrid verse I quoted). I thought these would be appropriate for a naval airmen. The other verses cover everything, all the services, astronauts, sub-units like Seabees, even dependants.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."