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3. Same here. The Doors have occupied a niche in my personal museum for 50 years.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 03:29 PM
Apr 25

And I'm a surface, "generalist" type, so I don't go deep into much if at all, so I am barely aware of their catalog - that is, not a fan - but on my Navy leaky, rusted, 20-years-old ship leaving the Philippines from R&R, going back to Vietnam, we ran smack dab into hurricane or whatever they're called over there. Terrible rough weather/water for a couple of days, on this ship, LST that is basically a hollow tube like a warehouse made for carrying troops or supplies, and flat-bottomed, no keel, meaning that it didn't cut through the waves, but hit them head-on, the entire front half bouncing up in the air, vibrating like a tuning fork, then slamming down flat, and this type known to break in half. With the gravity pulling you down when you're trying to climb a ladder (stairs).

When it was over and the ocean was smooth as glass, the Captain (actually a lower grade, Lieutenant) gave us a reward trauma relief "Holiday Routine," meaning the day off from regular duties, and there's no place to go, so everybody was sunbathing on the deck. And somebody had a cassette player and this was the soundtrack of the mood:


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