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A poem written while onboard the USS Galveston. ⚓️(Circa 1960-something) By Thomas Marian Vanderhoof. (Ret. US Navy)

11/18/2020

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A poem written while onboard the USS Galveston. ⚓️
(Circa 1960-something) By Thomas Marian Vanderhoof. (Ret. US Navy)
"Thoughts at Sea."
Way down in the Caribbean anywhere marks the spot
where men are doomed to spend their lives on a ship even God forgot.
Down with the banjos and barracudas. Here where a man gets blue,
Right in the middle of nowhere a thousand miles from you.
We sweat, we toil, we labor.
It's more than I can stand.
We're not exactly convicts,
Just defenders of our land.
We're men in the U.S. Service earning a measly pay,
Guarding people with millions For just two-fifty a day.
Living with our memories and thinking of our gals.
Hope that while we're gone away they won’t go marry our pals.
No one knows we're living and no one gives a darn.
Most of who don't know us; so it's none of their concern
But when we pass through the pearly gates
We'll hear Saint Peter yell
"Fall in, men from the Galveston, You've done your time in hell"
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USS Galveston (CL-93/CLG-3) was a Cleveland-class light cruiser of the United States Navy that was later converted to a Galveston-class guided missile cruiser. She was launched by William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia 22 April 1945.

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