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Shaun Thomas (Underdog), OSC
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Thomas, Bersley H., Jr. (Tom), SMCS USN(Ret).
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Retirement:
Losing my hair,
Over weight
Need glasses to see,
Have Glacoma and Cateracs Lost all of my permenent teeth Have COPD Have PAD
Have authoritis in my hip and knees Have Type 2 Diebedies and Have Cronic Depression (PTSD)
Ain't Life Fun
U.S.S. Elmer Montgomery (FF-1082) 16 June 1978
'I'll keep my freedom, my guns, and my money.
you can keep THE CHANGE
Retireing, fighting my current addiction to NTWS. Feeling sorry for myself for ever being USN Retired. Following my favorite baseball team "ATLANTA BRAVES". I have a chemistry background and one of the things I enjoy the most is turning beer, vodka and wine into urine. Watching my belly and my butt getting bigger and bigger with every passing year.
Other Comments:
Civilians and civilian life SUCK!!!!
I love Bass fishing, playing with my HO guage modal train layout.
And my dog .
I hate mowing grass, watching TV, unless its a good movie on DVD, or a ball game
and doing anything that requires physical or mental strain.
I enjoy discussing politics, money I don't have and sex. Remenicing and telling sea stories about when I was in the Navy.
A good laugh, at a joke, along with my coffee, in the morning, makes me feel good all day.
WELCOME,
While you are checking out my profile, please check to see if I listed you as a shipmate. My only criterria to be my shipmate is that we have something in common, so if we do, it goes both ways so please select me back and add me to your shipmates.
Feel free to look at anything on my profile. I appreciate any messages I get but don't feel that you are obligated to leave one. At my age stalkers are welcome. All I ask is that you put everything back were you found it. Have a nice day and come back anytime.
"I WAS A SAILOR ONCE & THE
MEMORIES NEVER GO AWAY,
OLD SAILORS NEVER DIE -
THEY JUST FADE AWAY!"
Cold War Event - Cuban Blockade
From Month/Year
October / 1962
To Month/Year
November / 1962
Description The blockade began October 21 and, the next day, Kennedy delivered a public address alerting Americans to the situation. In his speech, he warned a frightened American public that the missiles on Cuba were capable of hitting Washington, D.C. or anywhere in the southeastern portion of the country, the Panama Canal, Mexico City or “as far north as Hudson Bay, Canada, and as far south as Lima, Peru.” A military confrontation appeared imminent when Kennedy told his audience that he ordered the evacuation of the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and put military units on standby. Boldly, he stated, “one path we shall never choose is the path of surrender or submission.”
Khrushchev responded by sending additional ships—possibly carrying military cargo—toward Cuba and by allowing construction at the missile sites to continue. Over the following six days, the Cuban Missile Crisis, as it is now known, brought the world to the brink of global nuclear war while the two leaders engaged in tense negotiations via telegram and letter.
Fortunately by October 28, Kennedy and Khrushchev had reached a settlement and people on both sides of the conflict breathed a collective but wary sigh of relief. The Cuban missile sites were dismantled and, in return, Kennedy agreed to close U.S. missile sites in Turkey.