This Day

By lex, on September 11th, 2010

Asleep in my rack onboard the USS Constellation – “America’s Flagship.” We’re about two days out of Hawaii on the way home to San Diego at the end of a six month deployment. What we used to call, in those days, a “combat deployment.” We’d stopped off in Hawaii to drop off about 500 sailors and pick up perhaps twice as many “Tigers” – sons and daughters, fathers and cousins, brothers and sisters – who would ride the ship home with us, who would experience “life in the Navy” for four days.