Today, Oct. 11, is Navy Day, the 332nd anniversary, founding of the Navy. So I am grateful to my cousin, Dunc McQuagge, of Panama City, Fla., for sending me the link to ONCE I WAS A NAVY MAN. I believe you will read some beautiful prose, and also gain insight into the psyche and environmental lifestyle of the Navy man, of which there is none other like it. Go Navy!

Archie G. McQuagge, Jr. USN retired