Comments on: U.S.S. Taney Bound http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/01/uss-taney-bound/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:37:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jtownguy http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/01/uss-taney-bound/#comment-42993 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:04:13 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1188#comment-42993 I wish I could be with you. Miss the old girl.

Anyone know where I can get another Taney ball cap? I gave my to a crew member who could not afford to buy one now but I miss my?

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/01/uss-taney-bound/#comment-7492 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:42:40 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1188#comment-7492 I can tell Ben is a terrific kid who obviously loves you a great deal and will always cherish your special times together.

It sounds, to me, like he is simultaneously telling you that what he enjoyed was the sense of ‘Community’ he felt on the ship.

Perhaps he is also letting you ‘off the hook’, in terms of how hard you work for the things that you provide – possibly, maybe?

My guess is that he is beginning to see how things translate because he is ten years old now, and because YOU are his Dad and he loves you ;)
PC

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/01/uss-taney-bound/#comment-7408 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:31:25 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1188#comment-7408 Rafflaw:

I was indeed a great deal of fun and Ben said afterward that if he had a choice of living on the best house on the planet or the Taney, he would pick the Taney.

]]> By: rafflaw http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/01/uss-taney-bound/#comment-7400 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:25:33 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1188#comment-7400 The trip aboard the Taney sounds like my sleepovers with the Indian Princesses “tribes” that my daughters attended. I needed a real rest after that experience. But it was something that the girls and I never forgot. Enjoy that age while you can.

]]> By: JR http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/01/uss-taney-bound/#comment-7398 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:56:27 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1188#comment-7398 I did that once on the USS Yorktown and once on the USS Alabama back when I was in Scouts. Good times. Now I feel old. Damnit.

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/01/uss-taney-bound/#comment-7394 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:26:41 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1188#comment-7394 Indeed, it was. We slept in the crew quarters and made dinner and breakfast in the crew galley. Hard bunks, bad coffee, but great fun. With bunks of ten years old, however, the fathers were waiting for shore leave by the morning.

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/01/uss-taney-bound/#comment-7393 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:18:26 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1188#comment-7393 Obviously, you and your ‘swabbie’ survived. Does the troop have their sea legs yet? That must have been fun and educational-good for you!

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