It's Your Duty

It's Your Duty is a memoir about my early naval experience showing I lived the sailor's life at sea with astounding responsibility encountering danger and adventure. The book summons up stories, revealing an image into an inexperienced sailor's development, and presents his reflections. Stories about my association with the men I served that forged me into the man I became. WWII experienced leaders gave lessons and guidance, used mean talks, and provided the consequences for my not meeting requirements, for me, that resulted in embarrassments and painful incidents. The stories also include what a sailor wouldn't disclose in letters home. Not telling family and friends he could have died when confronting violent seas, nor disclose more threatening dangers. A sailor wouldn't describe his drunken conditions and the mischief he made. The stories embrace the enlisted sailor's point of view, a depiction deficient in most naval histories.