Moale (DD 693) - Naval Cruise Book

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,kkiiJt ' MM ' — J H Nr thing can describe the feeling of returning home. For six long months you wait for that moment when you steam under the Jamestown Bridge and the piers with their hundreds of excited, waving people come into view. Faces light up as loved ones are recognized, and sailors hesitate to throw their heaving lines because the people are crowding the rails. Their ship has come in. You are home again, Moalr Year after year you have put to sea and each time you return And although the faces are all different, the feeling is still the ing was for you and another of your crews. But that same wwihui makes all the pain worthwhile. And the smiling faces at the rail all g! same — Welcome home, Moale, welcome home. i the crowd on the pier, tme. That pain of wait- T1FFANY PUBLISHING COMPANY Printed in Norfolk, Virginia Tokyo, Japan San Diego, Calijornu.