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Casualties
Why does it matter who I am, what I like, who I like, and what I do. You are the average internet browser, a gull floating on updrafts, and have found yourself on my slice of sky. So, for the sake of time...
Graham
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under-paid
under-sexed
and
under complete control
Graham
16
under-paid
under-sexed
and
under complete control
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38A suit tells the world you are ready for business. A jacket tells the world you are open to fun. For me the ideal jacket should have soft and natural lines and balanced proportions. It should fit you but not constrict you. I do not believe in stiff shoulder pads. That is vanity, not style. Do not make it too tight. If it’s too tight, you will look like a matador. Any time I see a man playing golf or tennis in his jacket, I know he and I could be friends.
Luciano Barbera (via voxsart)
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5I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Obit of the Day (Historical): Commander George S. Rentz (1942)
George Rentz was a naval chaplain. Attended Gettysburg College (Go Bullets!) and Princeton Theological Seminary. After working at several churches, he joined the Navy at the opening of World War I and served with the 11th Marine Brigade in France. (Note: The Marines do not commission chaplains so they use the Navy’s.) He remained in the army and was promoted until reaching is final rank in 1924. Rentz served on several ships and at military bases throughout the U.S.
His final commission was aboard the USS Houston, above in 1935, a heavy cruiser and flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. On March 1, 1942, while cruising alongside the Australian HMAS Perth, both ships were struck by torpedoes and began taking on water. Rentz and the rest of the crew of the Houston ended up in the water. Rentz attempted, on several occasions, to give his life vest to young sailors. He was repeatedly rebuffed but managed to give his vest to Seaman 1st Class, Walter L. Beeson. Rentz swam away before Beeson could give it back, and he presumably drowned. Rentz and 799 other crewmen perished that day.
Rentz’s heroism earned him the Navy Cross, in a posthumous ceremony. In 1984, the U.S. Navy commissioned the USS Rentz, a guided missile frigate.
Interestingly enough, almost exactly 11 months later, February 3, 1943, four chaplains on the troop transport, USAT Dorchester, sacrificed their life vests and their lives. They were last seen praying together, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, on the deck as the ship went down. But that’s an OOTD for next year.
(Image is public domain, originally photographed by the Navy, via wikipedia.en.org.)
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