For those in peril on the sea – WWII

Found a link I wanted to post about yesterday and then got trapped by local reality… so I handed it off to another sailor. He did it well, as usual.

Memorial Day is certainly about the fallen first. But these old sailors are a living memorial to their fellow crew members gone ahead with a fair wind and following seas.

Thanks Tim.

Some time in the far 2030s, when the World War II generation is gone altogether, the veterans will be available to us only at a certain distance—via the finite record they left in life. Whatever materials the museums and libraries hold will offer a pale semblance of the energy that attended their living presence.