Anchors Aweight
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Chapter 20: The Heavy Chevy It was mid August, the air was laden with that soaking South Carolina humidity, and it was hot. Andy had pissed Maloni off the night before. It was a cruel joke, but Andy could be impulsive, and when he was, it usually had negative consequences for someone. They had been in a little bar on the strip slugging down the cheap brew mixture of Schlitz and Ripple when the Shore Patrol made their swaggering stroll through the bar. They were always present, ducking in and out of local establishments, ensuring that all sailors were good customers and better gentlemen. As the SPs exited, Andy, in his best Irish accent, couldn't resist. The door was still open so the SPs heard it all, "Aye mates, hows about puttin' a sweet kiss on' me wank here?" The two SPs were back in the bar so fast it surprised the holy shit out of Andy. The bar became silent, you could hear the foam...
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This is a tale of two young men who are forced into the choices of being drafted, resisting the draft, or enlisting in the military. Neither knew each other before this dilemma. Neither felt resisting the draft was appropriate. However, each believed in democracy and the Written in a unique narrative style, Anchors Aweight (a play on words), alternates narration from character to character in each chapter until they meet aboard ship. They form a bond as they deal with these new experiences. The adventures, hardships, and fun accelerate from chapter to chapter, as the two characters play off of each other well (like a Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid interactoin). Over time, they learn that even in miserable or undesirable situations, life can be satisfying. “Life is what you make it!”, says Jenswold. Morris says a story like Anchors Aweight is important because it serves as a simple reminder of the sacrifices made by our veterans, during war times, for all Americans. “We all have, or have had, friends, fathers, brothers, mothers, sisters, sons, daughters, aunts or uncles in similar circumstances,” he writes. It is a sea story, a naval tale and it is about the military. The military is chock-full of adventures and themes that never change, so this chronicle relates well to all branches of the military. Anchors Aweight is a fictional account of the authors’ experiences in the U.S. Navy. This entertaining chronicle is a smooth read with a dose of reality and a bountiful supply of humor.
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Thirty years after their experience in the U.S. Navy the authors decided to write a fictitious tale that paralleled their shared episodes during those troubled times. Since those troubled times, Holden has retired from the Navy (after a career that spanned a little over four years) with his very understanding and lovely wife, Chris. He was lucky enough to have two tolerant daughters and three grandchildren; they all keep him busy and out of jail. He also receives support from two renegade dogs, an old horse, and a stray cat. He has developed an unnatural obsession with old International trucks (that he has tucked away in various places around his house and scattered throughout the state of Ross too has been involved in the raising of a family and considers his children to be his personal heroes, and his grandchildren to be works of art in motion. Most recently, he has occupied his time horticulturing, spearing fish, saluting his neighbor (with the middle finger), and otherwise living an abnormal life, avoiding starched shirts while supporting the workers of the beer brewing industry. Although there are instances of clarity, he has found his life of fiction to be extremely stimulating and fun (and, actually, perhaps closer to reality than he cares to admit). In some of his spare time when he is not making wine, drinking wine, or otherwise engaged in the growing of those ingredients necessary for the making of wine, he fishes the warm waters of the Florida Keys with his beautiful and charming wife, Susan. He also is guilty of the telling of tall tales to anyone he can get cornered (and he corners many). From the beginning, the lives of these two men have pretty much mirrored each others, even though they hail from different places in our country. There are two things they have in common and hold close to their spirit, one is that they are both shameless storytellers (liars) and, two, is their friendship that has been on going from 1970 to the present.