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John Paul Jones. He was a heck of a general, you know. They even made a movie titled after his most famous remark, then couldn't find the room in three hour running time to credit him. "In Harm's Way ..", John Wayne even QUOTES JPJ partially.
The quote, which every middie darn well better know: "I wish to have nothing to do with ships that do not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way." Maybe a word or two off, but the reader will get the idea.
Well, it DOES feel good to be the father of the American navy. A whiff of the grape, Mister Roberts.
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