I wish these guys in the Mekong Delta could all expound on the hardships of Navy life on a modern aircraft carrier. Duenez, on the left, was severely injured in the legs, on his river assault boat, and medivaced to Japan. Billy Roy, holding the beer, was blown off the boat by a rocket propelled grenade. They didn't find his body for a day or two. Harris, with his arms crossed, was severely injured. I heard he was a paraplegic. Patrick Joseph "Grif" Griffin, my buddy, is sitting on the gun mount he was killed in, when a rocket basically blew him in half. They couldn't get his body out of the gun mount for some time, because of the combat, and his gun mount was tight quarters. I'm sure they would all prefer to be at sea for two or three hundred days.