The Muddy Mo (Aground)

A friend of mine was present in the Officer's Club at Norfolk and told me of a fistfight breaking out when some Army guys present referred to the USS Missouri as "Fort Missouri" during her two-week immobilization.  A sad chapter for one of the finest and proudest battleships ever built.  But The Laws of Physics will not be denied.


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Here is a happier history:

And Now...History Of The Chili Dog. No, No, Do Not Thank me!


And finally, consider the long and convoluted journey the chili dog took to get to your plate. From the ethnic enclaves of Germans and Greeks and Eastern Europeans, from the butcher shops of New York and the meatpacking plants of the Midwest, through industrialization and xenophobia and ingenuity, emerged something wholly new, messy, and distinctly American.

Sad Sea Burial

                                    Tough times: When we were tough people
Here's another rather sad sea burial you may or may not have read about :

Loyce Edward Deen, an Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class, USNR, was a gunner on a TBM Avenger. 
 
On November 5, 1944, Deen's squadron participated in a raid on Manila where his plane was hit multiple times by anti-aircraft fire while attacking a Japanese cruiser. 
 
Deen was killed. The Avenger's pilot, Lt Robert Cosgrove, managed to return to his carrier, the USS Essex
 
Both Deen and the plane had been shot up so badly that it was decided to leave him in it. 
 
It is the only time in U.S. Navy history (and probably U.S. military history) that an aviator was buried in his aircraft after being killed in action.