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...about the incident became known?the surfacing exercise was for the entertainment of visitors, two civilians were at the controls, the submarine crew appeared to make no effort to take survivors aboard, the search for the missing was to be concluded?the accident moved beyond tragedy. Says an Uwajima sailor, an old timer who sailed aboard an earlier Ehime Maru training vessel in the 1960s: "It is outrageous. It is totally beyond belief...
...this freedom of the message sender and receiver that connects them--sailor to wife, the dying to the living. Writing has been so important in America, I think, because communication is the soul and engine of democracy. To write is to live according to one's terms. If you ask me to be serious, I will be frivolous. Magnanimous? Petty. Cynical? I will be a brazen believer in all things. Whatever you demand I will not give you--unless it is with the misty hope that what I give you is not what you ask for but what you want...
...anticipation (and not a few visits by the Bud Man), when Rocker finally emerged from under the bleachers to warm up, you would have thought that this crew was going to storm the field and lynch him. There was enough cursing coming from the bleachers to make a sailor blush...
...good sports; we don't want to spoil The Perfect Storm for the illiterati. But even the multiplex ignoscenti will get enough early clues to know that something wrong is in the wind. Gloucester gal (Diane Lane) to her sailor beau (Mark Wahlberg) before he boards the Andrea Gail: "Don't go, Bobby. I got a bad feelin'." Bobby: "Just one more time, I promise." This dialogue, familiar from a quillion melodramas, is always uttered by the sap about to step into the old dark house, the line of fire or the unforgiving sea. The Perfect Storm has more whispers...
...Labor triumphed over old elitism and in my MP, a new sailor was born...