Praise for Corvettes and Crews
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Praise for Corvettes and Crews
And one of the bravest men I’ve seen is our Canadian sailors
on the corvettes. The ships used to go down in the trough
of the waves. People don’t realize how big the ocean is
and the action that it causes.
And we hit a wave 30 and 40 feet high, and hits a small boat
like a corvette and all you would see is the “T” in the mast
and every time I see a navy man, Veterans, I shake his hand.
So they were very brave. When they went down in the water
all you seen was the top of their mast.
My ship we would ride on top and plunge down into it,
but the corvettes would ride on top and go down
and up and down. It’s very, very frightening.
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