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I never use to miss the chance to climb upon his knee and listen to the many tales of life upon the sea. We'd go sailing back on barkentines and talk of things he did, tomorrow just a day away for the Captain and the Kid. His world had gone from sailing ships to raking mom's back yard; he never could adjust to land although he tried so hard. We both were growing older then and wiser with our years; that's when I came to understand the course his heart still steers. He died about a month ago while winter filled the air, and though I cried, I was so proud to love a man so rare. He's somewhere on the ocean now, the place he ought to be; with one hand on the starboard rail, he's waving back at me. For the Captain and this kid IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI Nature lives (life to nature) Have pity for the Earth (Love the Earth) I know I don't get there often enough But God knows I surely try It's a magic kind of medicine That no doctor could prescribe I used to rule my world from a pay phone And ships out on the sea But now times are rough And I got too much stuff Can't explain the likes of me Chorus: But there's this one particular harbour So far but yet so near Where I see the days as they fade away And finally disappear But now I think about the good times Down in the Caribbean sunshine In my younger days I was so bad Laughin' about all the fun we had I've seen enough to feel the world spin Mixin' different oceans meetin' cousins Listen to the drummers and the night sounds Listen to the singers make the world go 'round IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI Lakes below the mountains Fow into the sea Like oils applied to canvas They permeate through me And there's that one particular harbour Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within Most mysterious calling harbour So far but yet so near I can see the day when my hair's full gray And I finally disappear IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI UA PAU TE MAITAI NO TE FENUA RE ZAI NOA RA TE ORA O TE MITIE Bounty of the land is exhausted But there's still abundance on the sea

AARRGGHH and All I got was me wife with a bow on err, in a very revelin spot. (And I ain't revelin) . Along wid that be Da Vinci code Capt Rule book-USCG standards and practices A 21 foot Hunter sail boat.

Me thinks ye be readin too much into it, lad. Thar be a man, down in a hole, with a large bit of swager. Add to dis be them new fangled test called DNA. Yer can't out run yer jeans,(or tis that genes). Just be good not noe of them fightin boys was hurt, and that criminal can stand trial and Keelhaulin. I am tawkin with a good Pirate friend called GW. Suggest he use the CVN-76 for the ship to keelhaul with Here be her imaige. A small boat but with lots of heart.

Yer may not of wrttin it, but yer story tellin is mighty fine.

I've said this before and will again. Members of the military who haveperformed duties above and beyond the call of duty, usually never talk much about it. they considerit part of the duty, and don't try to use it as a crutch. After having delt with ex military and most marines is that the ones that talk, or bellow the loudest, usually did the least. It's sort of a mental reation to not having been in the "right spot for action, I can BS about it cause who would know. "

Well Stynky Ol' Mate, Once again I'm not gettin' my point across, which is tuff due to my lack of editorial skills. I totally agree with what yer sayin' about the Jap-Americans being treated unfairly being American citizens. I stated in my post that our government made mistakes. Those people were sent there out of shear fear of the unknown. America had it's hands full at the time. My point was simply that NONE of those people were tortured, starved, raped or murdered like the jews, chinese, koreans, political undesireables or war refugees. >>>Sigh<<<, I hope this gets my point acrossed. Black Jack perhaps you should read history before opening your mouth. These are just a few of the deaths that occured in Califonia during WW2 with the interment camps. I truly believe stupidity should hurt. Hirota Isomura and Toshio Kobata Two critically ill internees killed by sentry July 27, 1942, during transfer to Lordsburg Internment Camp.1 Isomura was a fisherman from San Pedro, California. Kobata was a farmer from Brawley, California. These two Issei, along with almost 150 other prisoners being moved from the Fort Lincoln Internment Camp in Bismarck, arrived at the New Mexico train station. While the other prisoners were forced to march the mile from the station to Lordsburg, Isomura and Kobata were too ill to walk. The two were driven to the front gate of the camp, arriving before the rest of the prisoners. At approximately 2:30 a.m., camp guard Private First Class Clarence A. Burleson suddenly opened fire on the two men.5 When the other newly arrived prisoners asked the camp physician about the condition of the two men, they were told that Isomura and Kobata were receiving medical care at the camp hospital. When morning came and the question was asked again, the doctor claimed that the two were shot during an escape attempt while on their way to the camp. Their graves were dug by two other Japanese American inmates, who were told "these graves are for the Japanese who died; if you don't do your work quickly, I will make you dig two more graves."5 When the prisoners demanded an investigation and autopsy, the military commander refused on the grounds that they were already buried. The results of the September 2 hearing on the incident were not made available to the prisoners, although they submitted a report and some were allowed to testify.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ito and Kanagawa Shot and killed during Manzanar demonstrations, December 6, 1942.1 From a report prepared by Togo Tanaka (one of the demonstration's targets): On the evening of Saturday, December 5, 1942, Frank Matsuda, a Nisei, formerly a Los Angeles restaurant owner and chairman of the Southern District JACL was beaten up by a gang and severely injured. Early on the morning of December 6 several persons suspected by Masuda of being involved in his beating were ordered arrested. Among these was Dick Miwa, a Kibei junior cook, who for some time had been trying to organize the mess-hall workers and had publicly accused the Assistant Project Director and the Caucasian Chief Steward of theft of sugar and meat from evacuee warehouses. Reports of these charges were widely circulated and generally believed by the residents. It is not plain that Masuda recognized positively any of his assailants but the bitter and contemptuous opposition of Miwa to the administration and its alliance with the hated JACL made him a natural suspect. Furthermore he could not account for his movements on the previous night. He was therefore taken to the county jail at Independence, California, while the other suspects were lodged in the project jail. Popular resentment and reaction were immediate. By 1 P.M. a crowd had gathered near Miwa's former residence. A public address system had been set up, and J.Y. Kurihara, among others, made demands (1) for the unconditional release of Miwa, (2) for an investigation by the Spanish Consul of conditions at Manzanar, (3) for further action against Masuda and other inu in camp. In the course of the meeting, "death lists" and "black lists" of alleged inu, most of whom were JACL collaborators with the administration, were read off. In addition to Masuda, individuals so listed included Tokutaro Slocum, a World War I veteran who had attained American citizenship (under the act of 1935), and who had openly boasted of his connections with the FBI and other intelligence agencies, and Togo Tanaka [author of this report] and Joe Masaoka, former JACL leaders who, serving as "documentary historians" for the WRA Reports Office, were under suspicion of informing on fellow evacuees. An Issei informant reported, concerning this afternoon meeting, that "the majority sentiment is that they want Mr. Miwa released from jail; they are convinced he was framed and wrongly accused by Mr. Masuda, whose accusation [that Miwa beat him up] is believed to be only another of a list of bad things he has done against the Japanese. Some speakers even said they would `do a lot of killing tonight unless Miwa was released.'" Another Issei reported: "The meeting served to fire up the men with great zeal. Many speakers said that Miwa was being made a scapegoat by the administration because he had exposed the sugar fraud and had sacrificed himself for the people. They said that Masuda was in on the plot. It was decided that unless the administration released Miwa that night, the mess-hall workers would all go on strike the next day." According to official reports Project Director Ralph Merritt met with evacuee representatives shortly after the noon assembly. Meantime he had requested military police to be in readiness to intervene, and they had lined up at the police station inside the project area. Merritt agreed to bring Miwa back to the project, but insisted that he be confined in the Manzanar jail. Dissatisfied with this compromise, evacuees assembled again at 6 p.m The second Issei quoted above reported: "The evening meeting was much worse. They're going out to get about then or eleven inu, I can't remember all the men whose names were read off several times over the microphone. I don't know the man's name who made the speech and began calling off the names, but he was terribly excited. the first name called off to be killed was Mr. Masuda. They said that the hospital should be invaded and Mr. Masuda killed because the administration had refused to release Mr. Miwa, and that the Negotiating Committee had gotten no place at all with Mr. Merritt. The speakers were also excited about the soldiers who had been drawn up by the police station and said that as true Japanese `we should not be afraid to die in this cause as our brothers are dying for justice and permanent peace and the new order in Asia.' Most of the talk though was about the inu activities of the men on the `death list.'" The assembled crowd split into two parts, one heading for the hospital to "get" Masuda, the other moving toward the project jail where Miwa was, by this time, confined. When Masuda could not be found (he had been hidden under a movable hospital bed), the part of the crowd that had headed for the hospital moved toward the barracks of half-a-dozen other alleged inu on the death list but, failing to locate the intended victims, joined up with the larger crowd and pushed toward the police station. The Project Director called on the commanding officer of the military police, and authorized him to declare martial law. A detachment of soldiers shortly appeared, and forced the crowd away from the police station. The Assistant Project Director at this point called the FBI in Los Angeles requesting agents to come into the center and "get at the bottom of this thing." Evacuee spokesmen demanded audience with the Project Director and pressed the commanding officer for release of Miwa. They were refused. The soldiers, who had managed to push the crowd completely away from the police station, now lined up, armed with submachine guns, shotguns, and rifles. Evacuees jeered and made insulting gestures. The soldiers thereupon donned gas masks and threw a number of tear gas bombs into the crowd. The evacuees fled blindly in every direction and some were piled up against a telephone pole, covering it with blood. The crowd re-formed and the soldiers fired, without orders. Within two minutes after the gas bombs had been thrown, no evacuee was in sight except the wounded lying in the street. A short time later a small crowd re-formed and started a parked automobile, aiming the car at a machine gun emplacement. The car curved away from the machine gun, crashing through the northwest corner of the police station and finally stopped against one of the army trucks parked west of the police station. Several bursts were fired by the machine gunner at the car as it swung across the road. The empty car was hit several times, one of the bullets ricocheting and wounding a corporal of the military police. In all, ten evacuees were treated for gunshot wounds and it was believed that several others were hurt but did not ask for treatment, from fear of implication in the affair. One evacuee died almost immediately. He was a young Nisei, one of whose brothers was then serving in the United States Army. A second evacuee, nineteen years old, died on December 11 from complications resulting from his wounds. Throughout the night military police, augmented by State Guardsmen, patroled the interior of the camp. Among the evacuees, shifts were arranged at each mess hall, and the bells tolled loudly and continuously throughout the entire night and late into the morning... On Sunday morning (December 13), Masuda, Slocum, Masaoka, Tanaka and some twenty others on the death lists and black lists were, with their families, removed from Manzanar and taken to an abandoned CCC camp in Death Valley, from which two months later they were permanently resettled. Miwa, Kurihara, and others suspected of implication in the "riot" had been sent to the County Jail, and later moved to a Department of Justice Internment Camp (if aliens) or to a WRA Isolation camp at Moab, Utah (if citizens).2 Grace Nakamura: I ran and became one of the curious spectators. The MP fired shots into the defenseless crowd. A classmate, Jimmy Ito, was shot and killed. It was a terrifying experience.8 Harry Ueno: ...By the time the tear gas was clear, I could see one man, not more than ten or fifteen feet away, on the ground face down. Three men tried to take him into the police station. But when a man is dead, he's pretty hard to carry. I open the window and I jump out and helped them carry the body into the jailhouse and put it on top of the table. He was bleeding. He must have been hit from behind at close range. Shot running away... I knew the one we brought in. James Ito. He's eighteen years old. One man, very strong JACL, was sitting in the back of the table. He saw that dead man, and he pounded the table and he said, "I made a mistake! I couldn't believe the United States could do this!" He was not talking to me or anybody else. He was yelling to himself...7 Jim Matsuoka: Years later I talked to a lady who was the sister of one of the younger men that got killed. She claimed he had been shot in the back as he fled... She said they had his bloody T-shirt with a bullet hole in the back. They kept it for years. Finally they buried the thing.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoichi James Okamoto Shot May 24, 1944 (died May 25), at Tule Lake, by Private Bernard Goe, who was later acquitted, except for a fine of $1 "for the unauthorized use of government property" -- the bullet.1 San Francisco Examiner, May 25, 1944: The witness, a Caucasian employee of the WRA, said he did not know the cause of the argument. "The guard said, `Don't get out of that truck,'" the witness related. "Anyhow the Jap got out on the driver's side and I am sure the guard said, `Don't come any closer, you b---.'" "About that time he drew up his rifle, butt end. He was going to hit him on the head. "The Jap moved, the guard backed up about three feet and shot."2 Report of the Investigation Committee on the Shoichi James Okamoto Incident, based on eyewitness accounts by eight Japanese Americans, July 3, 1944: ...at approximately 2:20 P.M., May 24, 1944, the shooting occurred. The victim, Shoichi James Okamoto, was 30 years old, had been born in Garden Grove, California, and had never been abroad... Okamoto was driving Truck #100-41 at the order of the construction supervisor... to get lumber piled across the highway from the old main gate, which is called Gate #4... In his truck, a swamper named Harry Takanashi... accompanied Okamoto on this assignment... The witnesses, besides Takanashi who rode next to Okamoto, included eleven boys from the heavy equipment crew who were waiting for an Army escort... According to Takanashi, the new sentry had just come on duty. Word has it that the new sentry was in a disagreeable mood and was known as one of the tougher sentries. The two on the truck went over the line a bit. The sentry, on Okamoto's side of the truck, could see Takanashi's badge, but could not at first see Okamoto's because of the high sidedoor of the truck, and because of the sentry's short stature. It is claimed that the badge was on Okamoto's jacket, as was necessary. The sentry asked to see the badge in a disagreeable fashion. Okamoto showed the pass, was allowed through, and returned with his truck and swamper in a few minutes. On the way back, his truck drove up close to the heavy equipment crew's trucks... At this juncture, Okamoto was driving in towards the gate and the sentry's attention was focused back upon him. While he had been waved through the gate a few minutes before, he was now ceremoniously halted. It is claimed Okamoto said words to the effect of, "Well, here's the pass." Perhaps this sounded cocky to the already irritated guard. The sentry ordered him off the truck and commanded Takanashi to drive. Without a driver's license, the latter explained, he could not drive a truck. The sentry, it is said, was infuriated at this delay. From then on, commands were well peppered with curses... To Takanashi's answer the guard is said to have replied, "You Japs and your WRA friends are trying to run the whole camp." He then turned back to Okamoto... Heavy equipment boys, not many feet away, were talking among themselves of the sentry's aggressive and insulting manner, and some despite the tension--were saying, "They're not all like that," "This one has it in for `Japs,' etc." Okamoto was apparently apprehensive by this time. When ordered out of the truck he had done so reluctantly and had left the truck door opened. At this juncture a Ford V-8, driven by Roy S. Campbell, a Caucasian WRA staff, arrived from the highway and stopped with engine running, about 7 feet from the end of Okamoto's truck. According to Takanashi and other witnesses, the sentry at that time cocked his gun and went around via front to the other side of the truck where Okamoto was standing. The sentry then ordered Okamoto to the back of the truck. This would have been just outside the gate. Okamoto started but hesitated for an instant. At this point, speculate on the guard's motives, with true concentration-camp psychology, the suspicion is that the guard wished to shoot him outside the gate. (Shot while trying to escape.) Okamoto's hesitation is explained by this point. In the moment of hesitation, in which most say no pipes were lit and no words said, the sentry struck Okamoto sideways on the right shoulder with a rifle-butt. Okamoto raised his right arm and moved his body slightly back to ward off any further blows. While in this defensive position, the guard stepped back one pace and from a distance of four or five feet fired without warning. In all accounts stemming from eyewitness testimony, the act was looked upon as an unprovoked attack, Okamoto fell with what seemed to have been a close-range stomach wound... It is said, in the center, that Takanashi certainly must have been cool-headed about the affair since he summoned an ambulance in less than one minute... the account which he and his co-workers gave as signed testimony to the Police Department in interviews with all eyewitnesses on the scene shortly thereafter is said to be factual and logical. The story of all eyewitnesses, despite already distorted newspaper versions, such as in the S.F. Examiner that the one Caucasian, Roy Campbell, eyewitness account, probably fits the picture drawn for them... The sentry cursed, seemed nervous, and it is said, swung the rifle in [the heavy equipment crew's] general direction. More cursing--"You people get the hell out of here"--and they fled, Takanashi trying to get the hospital on the phone. Another crew of five stumbling on the scene were ordered back by the sentry... How long a time before [Okamoto] was hospitalized is not known; some say 20 minutes. According to the physician and surgeon every possible means of treatment was administered... Okamoto died at 12:10 A.M., May 25, 1944.2 6 weeks later, on July 6, 1944, a few days after an inu murder, military officers held court-martial proceedings for Goe. Goe was charged and acquitted of manslaughter after an hour's deliberation.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kanesaburo Oshima Killed by sentry, May 12, 1942, at Fort Sill Internment Camp.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ichiro Shimoda A 45-year-old gardener from Los Angeles, shot and killed for trying to escape, May 13, 1942, at Fort Sill Temporary Enemy Alien Internment Camp, Oklahoma. He was among those first Japanese Americans taken from their families by the FBI the day Pearl Harbor was attacked -- for being a Japanese veteran. Distress over the wife and family he left behind eventually turned into mental instability. While on a train to Missoula, he tried to commit suicide by biting off his tongue. The other prisoners restrained him and placed a piece of wood between his jaws. He later tried to asphyxiate himself at Missoula.5 In March, he was transferred to Fort Sill, where the guards and the commander were aware of the psychological condition that he had developed in the months since he last saw his family. What follows is an FBI memo dated May 18, 1942.5 One Jap became mildly insane and was placed in the Fort Sill Army Hospital. [He]... attempted to escape on May 13, 1942 at 7:30 a.m. He climbed the first fence, ran down the runway between the fencing, one hundred feet and started to climb the second, when he was shot and killed by two shots, one entering the back of his head. The guard had given him several verbal warnings.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hikoji Takeuchi Shot May 16, 1942 at Manzanar, by Private Phillips (Co. B747 MP Battalion).1 WRA Report, summer, 1942: The guards have been instructed to shoot anyone who attempts to leave the Center without a permit, and who refuses to halt when ordered to do so. The guards are armed with guns that are effective at a range of up to 500 yards. I asked Lt. Buckner if a guard ordered a Japanese who was out of bounds to halt and the Jap did not do so, would the guard actually shoot him. Lt. Buckner's reply was that he only hoped the guard would bother to ask him to halt. He explained that the guards were finding guard service very monotonous, and that nothing would suit them better than to have a little excitement, such as shooting a Jap. Sometime ago, a Japanese [Nisei] was shot for being outside of a Center... The guard said that he ordered the Japanese to halt -- that the Japanese started to run away from him, so he shot him. The Japanese was seriously injured, but recovered. He said he was collecting scrap lumber to make shelves in his house, and that he did not hear the guard say halt. The guard's story does not appear to be accurate, inasmuch as the Japanese was wounded in the front and not in the back.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Hatsuki Wakasa Shot and killed April 11, 1943, at Topaz, by sentry Gerald B. Philpott.1 Wakasa graduated from Keio College in Tokyo, came to the U.S. in 1903, and studied for two years at the University of Wisconsin. During World War I, he was a civilian cooking instructor at Camp Dodge, Iowa.6 According to the Army report, Wakasa (who was in his 60s ) was shot for trying to escape and for ignoring warnings from sentries at two of the guard towers3 -- "while attempting to crawl through the fence."6 It was half an hour before the Sunday sunset when he was shot in an isolated corner of the camp. It was not until 45 minutes later, after Wakasa's body was removed, that 1st Lt. Henry H. Miller (commander of the Military Police) informed a WRA staff member and knowledge of the shooting became public. The WRA later determined that Wakasa was inside the camp during the shooting, where a large bloodstain marked the spot five feet inside the fence. A postmortem examination of the entry and exit wounds found that Wakasa was facing the soldier who shot him. Eiichi Sato, a social worker for Block 36, went to inspect the scene at 10 a.m. the next morning (along with 4 other inmates):6 We approached the west-south fence, approximately 35 feet away, when an army "jeep" came speeding from the north on the road beyond the fence and, upon seeing us, came to an abrupt halt. The driver stood up from his seat, turned to his companion, and grabbed the submachine gun from the latter's hand. He jumped off jeep and came dashing to the fence pointing his gun at us [and saying] "Scatter or you'll get the same thing as the other guy got."6 On April 28, at Fort Douglas, Utah, court-martial proceedings were held for the soldier who had killed Wakasa. He was found "not guilty."6

Tis a good gag, fer the weaker of minds. But we here are all of Mensa pirates, the craftiest there are.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- For sale: Yacht. May need work. Seller eager to unload. The state-owned Maryland Independence, built for the Canadian Navy during World War II and refurbished in the 1970s as a pleasure vessel, is going up for bids on eBay. Gov. Robert Ehrlich is unloading the yacht to keep a promise made during his gubernatorial campaign last year. "The governor felt it was not an efficient use of money even in good times," said Paul Schurick, Ehrlich's communications director. The annual operating costs of about $230,000 "can be used for other purposes," he said. The auction begins Thursday and bidding will continue for 10 days, said Henry Fawell, an Ehrlich spokesman. Maryland is not alone in using the Internet to sell state surplus. State and local governments across the country are turning to eBay to auction off all kinds of surplus and confiscated goods, including automobiles, jail bunk beds, books, DVDs and even roof lights from police patrol cars, USA Today reported Monday. The 112-foot Maryland yacht carries up to 35 passengers and can accommodate 75 people for parties while docked. Maryland bought the boat for $636,000 plus the trade-in of a 50-foot yacht in 1986. Asked why the sale was being made on eBay rather than through one of the yacht brokers located in Annapolis, Ehrlich said it was "one of Schurick's good ideas." Schurick said there are millions of potential buyers on eBay, giving the state a much wider audience than would be available through a broker. While Ehrlich criticized the yacht during the campaign, he said in July that a state yacht can help economic development officials attract businesses to Maryland. He's hoping that someone will donate a smaller yacht that would be less expensive to operate. In the meantime, the Maryland Port Administration has a yacht the state can use to entertain guests. Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press

What is the type of ship? Where is she harboured? How many cannon, etc.

I have to say that , it was a loss to both sides. Why it started is something that may never come to light(and the who knew wht when stuff). I do agree that had Truman not dropped the two bombs, the loss of life on both sides would have been tragic. It will be a shame when they pump out the USS Arizona. It should have been done some time ago. While it has some calming effect now, when those bunks discharge their loads, you can kiss the ecosystem of Pearl goodby. And I don't think the navy budget will cover the cleanup.

It would seem your photo is no longer showing up. This may be due to the manor you hyper linked the location of the Photo. Have you uploaded it to your profile, or did you link it from a secondary server? If it is off os a second location, it would be in you best interest to upload to the site's server. If it is there, then there may be an issue with the photo. It could be a corrupt file, or for some reason the server will not allow the image to propagate out.

It would seem that my intentions were misunderstood. Apparently there is a need to clearly stating the obvious. While there is redeeming value in most posts here, this one is lacking, severely lacking. As far as my ability to read and write, I feel this should show that I am capable to construct sentences with nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives.

At dis point I be wishin I was single, but alas, Me first mate has me boat running wing on wing, with a warm summer breeze keepin the sails full. An that is the true path to a pirates heart.

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"What's yer favorite personal lubricant?" Tis a silly question, depends on the island ye be tryin to get to. All ports be tricky, just takes a few turns of an hourglass and location to find yer right one. Any good pirate should know this, even dem navy folks.