On Friday, August 25, 2000 6:55 PM, Mike Wallace wrote:

(snip)
> > Despite its simplicity, it was a remarkably moving ceremony.
Fortunately
> I
> > was wearing sun-glasses!

> I just finished tipping a shot of some fine Canadian sipping whiskey in
> honor of you and your mates. The sacrifices that all of our mothers and
> fathers and brothers and sisters make in the service of our respective
> countries are never given the true heartfelt thanks that they deserve.

Sadly their stories are little known - and hardly ever sung about!

(And I've been at the Tennessee sippin' whisky!)  :-)

Aldo asked earlier about diving 'heroes'.

These guys - even the youngest whose uniform badges haven't even suffered
the tarnishing process to try and make them look a little ancient! - are my
personal 'heroes' of diving!  As one of the "old 'n' bolds" said today:  "I
can't say that I've liked every diver that I've ever met!  But I can say
that I'd trust my life to every Navy diver that I've ever met!"

That may not be entirely true!  (In my case, people used to queue up to dive
with me because I was such a coward that they knew that they'd be safe!)
:-)

Mind you!  I'd never heard of 'Snarl' or his sidekicks in those days!  :-)

Strike