A
story about a mystery photo left at the Navy Memorial earlier this year has been making the rounds in Facebook, and it got me to thinking about the time-honored tradition of Burial At Sea. While sometimes we might look at the tasking with a certain amount of maudlin humor (on
Topeka, we once had a wind direction/head valve not closed issue where some of the ashes from a Bridge ceremony were sucked back into the boat, and we blamed any subsequent intermittent equipment faults on a haunting for the next couple of years), I generally felt honored to take part in the ceremonies committing a Sailor's remains to the deep.
How do you feel about taking part in old Naval traditions?
Read the complete post at http://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2013/11/burials-at-sea.html
Posted
Nov 15 2013, 11:02 AM
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The Stupid Shall Be Punished