Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Bravo Zulu Captain Beach

[Michael B Holt <tlohm@juno.com>]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:33:11 -0600 "Mark Steed" writes:
>Michael: "Bravo Zulu" is a U.S. Navy signal meaning "WELL DONE". I 
>think you deserve one. See the history of "Bravo Zulu" at: 
>http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq101-2.htm

Thanks.   

>I am 48 years old now and still remember all of my childhood heroes 
>and nothing has changed my mind over the years. My old man was a U.S. 
>Naval Aviator in World War 2 (never call them pilots, pilots "drive" 
>ships).

I made an enemy for life when I was about 10.  I asked innocently
why the Air Force had "pilots" when the Navy's term "aviator" 
obviously encompassed a greater range of skills.   One of the 
adults nearby was an Air Force pilot.  

Oh, well.

> Growing up, my bedtime stories were about Halsey, Nimitz, 
>Hellcats, Wildcats, the Yorktown and the submarines Tang and Wahoo. 

I'd have loved that.

>Don't even get me going on airplanes. They are and always will be my 
>first love after the wife and kids. My love of submarines is on an 
>even keel with the planes. I alternate between them all.

Hey, do you know how I might get the builder's prints of the F2A?

> I never met 
>Captain Beach but what an honor it would have been. It is also so sad 
>that our World War Two vets are leaving us at over 1000 a day. 

We need to collect all the history we can.   Historians know that
much is lost every day, and when there is no longer anyone who
was really present at a given event, much of what happened is 
lost forever.



Mike H.


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