Have a Great Navy Day!

Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood. -C. J. Cherryh-

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? -Adam Smith-

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace. -Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)-

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. -H.L. Mencken-

Well, to be Frank, I’d have to change my name. -Mariana Eye Institute, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands-

For us who wear the uniform, every day is Flag Day. We pay our honor in act and feeling and we have little need of words. -Lt. Collins, “The Sand Pebbles” (Richard McKenna)-

It is said there will be no more war. We must pretend to believe that. But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock and buy time with our lives. It is we who keep the faith. -Lt. Collins, “The Sand Pebbles” (Richard McKenna)-

Winter is the too-high price we pay for all of the other seasons. -“Sally Forth”-