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...first flush toilets in an underwater craft, and the first stairs. The air is kept at a constant 72 degrees and circulates rapidly enough to make smoking permissible. Instead of being assigned to "hot racks," or beds that rotate among off-duty personnel, each crew member has his own bunk, equipped with stereo headphones. Food is copious, though overindulgence is rarely a problem. As one crew member explained, "We have to remember that hatches out of this place are only 24 inches in diameter...
...among us. Hundreds of people had vomiting fits . . . As all were crossing the ocean for the first time, they thought their end had come. The confusion of cries became unbearable . . . I wanted to escape from that inferno but no sooner had I thrust my head forward from the lower bunk than someone above me vomited straight upon my head. I wiped the vomit away, dragged myself onto the deck, leaned against the railing and vomited my share into the sea, and lay down half-dead upon the deck...
...surfing." Michael met his future wife Rachel, 22, a college student living in Norfolk, after he enlisted in 1982. They have been apart most of the time since he went to sea. At the time of his arrest, a 15-lb. cache of classified documents was found near his bunk on the Nimitz. Rachel tearfully told a Virginian-Pilot reporter, "All I want to do is close my front door and not open it until this is all over...
...have over a hundred pounds of sovenirs (sic)." Many of the documents in the Poolesville trash bag came from the Nimitz. When Michael Walker was arrested aboard the carrier in Haifa, Israel, last week, 15 lbs. of classified materials were reportedly discovered concealed in a box near his bunk. He was confined and charged with espionage. Like his father, he would face a maximum term of life imprisonment if convicted on the charges...
...There are American ghosts, of course, haunted rooms, secrets in the attic. But the virtue of the New World has always been its newness. "Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory?" Ralph Waldo Emerson asked. Henry Ford never looked back. "History," he said, "is more or less bunk...