Somers (DDG 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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Sailors Attitude lVlan against the sea is an age old problem. lt didn't start when we left and it won't stop when we get back. Some of us are sailors at heart others only by the realization the 360 degrees of water make it so . . . But we share the same environment, and whether we're captain or lowly seaman it changes not the fact we're equally far from home. Technology has made life at sea easier but as yet, done nothing t for living at sea. Each man has still to cope with that part of himself that rejects the periodic finality of pulling away from the pier. At one time or another each of us has cursed the sea, as if its very existance is the reason we are on it. Yet there are redeeming factors, and if they be hard to see maybe its because our eyes have been too long on the horizon that leads home. Sailors that we are, , sometimes loud, sometimes rowdy We're stilll a group of guys brought closer by the vastness of the sea. That very vastness, that seems to empty our hearts provides the bond that enables us to share the hardships at sea, as well as at home. ?3 2 5 3 01 Q m -1 ns C ' C ' 'D 3 S- I.. 'Q U' H- Q- m C -- O Q, 3- -is 1 a Q- 2 : S' 5' 'D CD A P+ Q, -'ND in m Q. 3- E ua E gl- - O CD -. to - rg' C 3' 4-+ 3 J' CD -1 J.. m r-P m DJ gg 1-+ f-+ CD CD 3- :,' :br CD O 2' V, V7 -- 4 ,-4.2 fb 3- .0 gt '3 rv Q U' 5' 3' O- P+ 5 C us 92 m 3' Q- 03 ' 09 8 EF. F5 DJ ,V W f,,, 5 f f I jwvwfli , , , Qsgfg M5 sf, .-1 1 1 ,If 4 5 1,41 cg, s M ,ff 194 ,saiirifieit gfguerfg yi, fzwfizgf fp-2 at .t agifgaf El A ns 3 Q. 2. O 3 . rf U7 P+ O 'U l 'l'l E -i 3 IO 'J IND E E1 CD 3 ff? A f-+ U3 O if 3 o 3 F .4 . V IU 2 CD 3 4 j A Z7 I g 'rft 1, :2 51115. 5-452 9 ini' J, of success and failure. i It's a sailors attitude . . . It didn't start when we left, .: 'YE ' at yer, is K 4. 7

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