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Memory for RMCM Doug Bewall
Join the Navy and see the World -- Some of my favorite moments.
The Northern Lights in Iceland; The snow covered floating Mount Fuji when approaching Tokyo Bay; In Saigon, hundreds of young Vietnamese women slowly and gracefully riding their bicycles at noon in flowing silk; All alone at the Sphinx outside Cairo (not Vegas); Diving in crystal clear water with miles of empty beaches during a tour of duty home ported and ashore in Okinawa, even the sea snakes were interesting; A tour through to the base of Gibraltar just to see its water source; Reopening the Suez Canal on the COMSIXTHFLT Flagship in 1976 with neatly sliced and stacked merchant ships reassembled ashore; Pompeii and Herculaneum plus seeing Bradyism in action at Pozzuoli and Campi Flegrei; and, the power of a Summer Storm underway in the Bering Sea. Unbelievable.