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Back then, before Internet and cell phones, before Skype and Expedia, when the ship slipped from the jetty and set sail for places unknown, it meant waiting weeks for a shore call or, worse yet, a call from aboard the ship at sea. I never warmed to the ship-to-shore calls that required me to say "over" after completing a thought and "over and out" after saying "I love you" at the end of the conversation. A conversation you never really knew how many other ears were privy to. During the early years of our marriage I keenly ironed creases into slacks and wrinkles out of shirts. As years turned into decades, the thrill faded and I often passed the iron to a reluctant husband, or hoped that no one would notice the lack of iron on fabric when I pulled uniforms from a hot dryer and hung them quickly onto hangers before stuffing them into the closet and slamming the door.Retirement Shadow Box - News
Above CPO1 Dexter Goulding presents CPO2 Rogers with a shadowbox in honour of his retirement. The room was filled to capacity that afternoon in May when my husband and his good friend held a dual retirement function at the Chiefs and Petty Officers'
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Judging by his retirement party Thursday night, his colleagues wish he could stick around just a little longer. For hours, they showered him with gifts and praise. Plaques, hat racks, spurs, shadowbox frames, honorary letters, medals and pins all
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According to some accounts of naval history and tradition, when a sailor retires and is departing the ship for the last time, it’s considered bad luck for the sailor’s shadow to touch land before he/she does. Thus, the sailor’s shipmates would construct a sturdy box, hand-crafted of the finest materials, in which to display mementos of the sailor’s accomplishments — thereby symbolically creating a “shadow” of the sailor. The box safely contains the sailor’s “shadow” until he/she is safely ashore, at which time the shadow box can be given to the sailor in a presentation ceremony.
Historically, when a sailor would join a ship’s crew, he would join that ship for his entire career. During the sailor’s voyages to ports of call around the world, he would collect many trinkets, souvenirs, and reminders of his travels. Naturally, as space aboard ship was at a premium, these items tended to be small. When the sailor piped ashore for the last time, his shipmates saw to it that a special ceremonial box was constructed for him. The box would hold all the possessions that had been collected during those many voyages, a and would simultaneously symbolize the sailor’s career and time aboard ship.
Ideally, a shadow box serves not only as a reminder of achievements and accomplishments, but also as a summation, a culmination, of a career. A shadow box should enable a stranger glancing at its contents to gain a substantial understanding of the owner’s past service and achievements.
I work two jobs, 4X10s at one job and Thursday night 'till Sunday afternoon towing cars out of ditches, on-call 24X3. Once a month I'm a reservist in the Navy Seabees after doing four years active from '78 to '82. Don't tell me raising taxes won't hurt the little guy, I AM the little guy and I get nailed in California the same as a guy making $1 million per year.
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