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Well arrived home last night after a disastrous cruise with my naval reunion 40th anniversary. Myself and 9 others of my group came down with a terrible dose of the flu. Damn but cruise ships are floating petri dishes. Never a sick day in 12 years at sea but out for the count after 4 days of a 9 day cruise. I'm still very ill and I'm off work for at least the next 2 days, making it 7 days so far.

To top it off, one of my shipmates died in his sleep on the last night before entering Sydney Harbour. :(

You'll not get me aboard another one
 
BravoZulu said:
Well arrived home last night after a disastrous cruise with my naval reunion 40th anniversary. Myself and 9 others of my group came down with a terrible dose of the flu. Damn but cruise ships are floating petri dishes. Never a sick day in 12 years at sea but out for the count after 4 days of a 9 day cruise. I'm still very ill and I'm off work for at least the next 2 days, making it 7 days so far.

To top it off, one of my shipmates died in his sleep on the last night before entering Sydney Harbour. :(

You'll not get me aboard another one
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May your comrade + Rest In Peace +
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
 
BravoZulu said:
Well arrived home last night after a disastrous cruise with my naval reunion 40th anniversary. Myself and 9 others of my group came down with a terrible dose of the flu. Damn but cruise ships are floating petri dishes. Never a sick day in 12 years at sea but out for the count after 4 days of a 9 day cruise. I'm still very ill and I'm off work for at least the next 2 days, making it 7 days so far.

To top it off, one of my shipmates died in his sleep on the last night before entering Sydney Harbour. :(

You'll not get me aboard another one
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Sorry man, dreadful all around. RIP to your mate and feel better.

For different reasons I’ve avoided cruising for years (packed boat doesn’t appeal to me) but if you add on top of it all what you guys went through… ugh.
 
BravoZulu said:
Well arrived home last night after a disastrous cruise with my naval reunion 40th anniversary. Myself and 9 others of my group came down with a terrible dose of the flu. Damn but cruise ships are floating petri dishes. Never a sick day in 12 years at sea but out for the count after 4 days of a 9 day cruise. I'm still very ill and I'm off work for at least the next 2 days, making it 7 days so far.

To top it off, one of my shipmates died in his sleep on the last night before entering Sydney Harbour.

You'll not get me aboard another one
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Get well soon mate, sorry to hear about your buddy :(
 
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Time Gun Battery position Valletta Harbor, Malta had a great week there with Mrs. Connaught Ranger circa +40 every day,
spent time underground in the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum dated to 3300 – 3000 BC

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The Malta at War Museum is located at the original historic entrance of Vittoriosa (Birgu), the older from the Three Cities. It stands to document for posterity the great ordeal which the brave people of Malta and their defenders endured during the dark days of the Blitz (1940-43). The bomb shelter tour is very interesting.

We also visited https://heritagemalta.mt/explore/fort-st-elmo-national-war-museum/
the Bomb Shelter at the National Army Museum,
 
muck said:
My father's died from pancreatic cancer tonight.

We'd been estranged for quite some time, he was a very violent man. Still … strange feeling.
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My sympathy losing your Father. My Grandmother and her second husband raised me from day 4 of my life. My Father was in the Navy and I remember seeing him one time in 52, I sat on his knee and he was in a port call at Houston so he took a cab over to see me and the family. I never saw him again or ever heard from him. I lived a good life with my Grandparents and still my Mother was also included in our family. It never seemed strange to me to have two mothers. My Grandfather was a great man and was always kind and loving to me and his daughter my sister to me which she was two years older. He was a half track driver in the Texas 36th Division and participated in the Anzio landings and 90 days of intense action. He and his unit left Italy by Landing craft and headed for France where they were handed over to George Patton's Army and he went from Italy all the way to Germany. He was a weekend drinker but never thought about having a drink during work week. He did get a little bit harder to get along with as he grew older. My Father was a submariner during WWII and served on a Gato Class, then at wars end he was assigned to crewing on different subs being moved to the reserve fleets. He was serving on the USS Los Angeles in 1948 and served in the first Korea War cruise of the Los Angeles. Life always comes full circle and it never gets easy, we all are different and still share a lot of similar things in life.
 
muck said:
My father's died from pancreatic cancer tonight.

We'd been estranged for quite some time, he was a very violent man. Still … strange feeling.
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My father was a wonderful man, 1 of 10 kids. Until I became a police officer I just assumed all kids had parents like mine. Naïve I know......Even though you were estranged and for good reason @muck it would still feel strange that one of the 2 people that brought you into the world is now gone from it forever.

For what you should have had as a child, my deepest condolences brother :(
 
BravoZulu said:
Well arrived home last night after a disastrous cruise with my naval reunion 40th anniversary. Myself and 9 others of my group came down with a terrible dose of the flu. Damn but cruise ships are floating petri dishes. Never a sick day in 12 years at sea but out for the count after 4 days of a 9 day cruise. I'm still very ill and I'm off work for at least the next 2 days, making it 7 days so far.

To top it off, one of my shipmates died in his sleep on the last night before entering Sydney Harbour. :(

You'll not get me aboard another one
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Update to the last:

Seems I now have pneumonia in my left lung. Off work until it's good to go again. On some heavy antibiotic and Mersyndol for pain relief and sleep as I haven't had a decent sleep for 8 nights

Onwards and upwards!
 
BravoZulu said:
Well arrived home last night after a disastrous cruise with my naval reunion 40th anniversary. Myself and 9 others of my group came down with a terrible dose of the flu. Damn but cruise ships are floating petri dishes. Never a sick day in 12 years at sea but out for the count after 4 days of a 9 day cruise. I'm still very ill and I'm off work for at least the next 2 days, making it 7 days so far.

To top it off, one of my shipmates died in his sleep on the last night before entering Sydney Harbour. :(

You'll not get me aboard another one
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Hope you get back up to speed very soon. I remember in 1965 the Army was having an epidemic problem of some virus that was deadly. Any time we were in a large building we had to sit with one seat open , no shoulder to shoulder arrangement. That was in effect for all theaters on base also. So I left Basic and went on to Fort Ord for Infantry and I had to laugh when they loaded us onto cattle trucks piled on top of one another to get to the top of some very steep hills. I never forget it, I wonder how we all survived :0)
 
BravoZulu said:
My father was a wonderful man, 1 of 10 kids. Until I became a police officer I just assumed all kids had parents like mine. Naïve I know......Even though you were estranged and for good reason @muck it would still feel strange that one of the 2 people that brought you into the world is now gone from it forever.

For what you should have had as a child, my deepest condolences brother :(
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it took me many years to realise some of what my parents did for us kids.
 
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