Hopewell (DD 681) - Naval Cruise Book

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Cyuuiep 6? Li edication .SINCE MAN BEGAN TO SAIL THE SEVEN SEAS THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, IT HAS BEEN HIS MISFORTUNE TO HAVE TO LEAVE SOMEONE BEHIND, SOMEONE TO WAIT AND LONG FOR HIM. IN RETURN, THAT SOMEONE IS THE ONE WHOM HE WILL BASE HIS DREAMS ON, BUILD HIS PLANS FOR. FOR THAT SOMEONE IS THE ONE WHO WILL MAKE HOME WORTH COMING BACK TO. .AFTER A SLOW EMBRACE, A KISS, A WAVE OF THE HAND WHILE LEAVING SAN DIEGO, v , A FEELING OF LOSS AND REGRET SEEMED TO INVADE HOPEWELL A FEELING NEW TO SOME AND OLD TO OTHERS KNOWING THAT ALL THAT REMAINED WERE THE FOND MEMORIES OF THE PAST AND THE MANY LETTERS TO COME TO SOME LETTERS OF SADNESS BUT TO MOST LETTERS OF JOY LETTERS CARRYING LOVE AND HAPPINESS OVER MANY THOUSANDS OF MILES WHAT IS MAIL CALL? TO MOST MAIL CALL MEANS MORE THAN CHRISTMAS A LETTER CAN T BE PURCHASED IN A STORE IT HAS NO MATERIAL VALUE IT DOESN T COME IN A BOX YET IT IS PRICELESS PRICELESS BECAUSE OF THE HIDDEN TREAS URES WRITTEN ON THE PAGES WORDS THAT ARE MEANT FOR ONLY ONE PERSON NO A LETTER CAN T BE BOUGHT IT HAS TO COME FROM SOMEONE SOMEONE WHO CARES FOR THIS REASON WE OF THE USS HOPEWELL ARE DEDICATING IHIS CRUISEBOOK TO THE WIVES SWEETHEARTS AND FAMILIES OF THE CREW THE ONES WHO MADEMAIL CALL WHAT IT IS . 1 C 1 1 - 1 1 1 - 1 1 . . , ... 1' ' ' ! , . -1 . 1 - ' . 1. I ' 1 I . 7 7 ' F51 J , ' 1 1 ' , .

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