Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! -Lieutenant Howell Maurice Forgy, USN (ChC)-

Except for Hawaii, Indiana is the smallest state west of the Appalachian Mountains. -Reference.com Fact of the Day 17 September 2014-

Don’t give up the ship! -Captain James Lawrence, USN-

Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead! (legend; the actual wording: Damn the torpedoes. Four bells, Captain Drayton. Go ahead, Jouett, full speed.) -Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, 5 August 1864-

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. -Woodrow Wilson-

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. -Ronald Reagan-

May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.

We have met the enemy and they are ours… -Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry, USN-

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. -Robert Morgan-

You beat everything, you know that? -Andy Taylor, “The Andy Griffith Show”-