All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

When the pursuit of love trumps obligations.

I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.