"Calif Bill" wrote in message nk.net...
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:
Doug Kanter wrote:

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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I recently got some officially released US Navy photos.

The first is our younger son John manning the rail as the USS Harry S
Truman got underway from Norfolk Oct 13th for a six month deployment.

John is a newlywed and his bride was one of the hundreds on the pier
seeing the ship off. (Note the shiny new wedding band)

I think the picture says it all.

The second is an impressive shot of the Carrier in transit.

The pics may be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/4uujj


Eisboch

That's nothin'. I have two of those boats, "Lobsta 1" and Lobsta 2". I
just
don't use 'em that much. :-)

Just kidding! Nice pics!




On the ship itself, is it Harry S Truman or Harry S. Truman? The first
is correct, the second is not.


The first is correct. I read a biography on Truman and he never used a
period after "S".

Eisboch

My mother won a contest in about 1951 by knowing that Harry S did not have a
middle name. One of those items that stick with you the rest of your life.
As to manning the rail. Friend was an enlisted man on a carrier in the
50's. He said a great incentive to not be a sailor, but to be an officer
was the show the enlisted had to put on by standing on the deck as you
arrived in port. And arriving in San Francisco caused you to almost freeze
to death.

I have a employee with a middle initial. Simply the letter D with no
period. People adding the period actually annoys him a bit. He signs
his name with quotation marks around the D to draw attention to the
fact that it is just a letter.