have read USS Fort Donelson and not USS Donelson.
Unfortunately the night before I wrote this literary effort I’d been
out on the town rum drinking and smoking my favorite
Cuban cigars. And you know how it is the next day, you’re a bit fuzzy.
But mistakes do happen when an idea suddenly pops into your
head and you rush to get onto print quicker than you can say
Jack Robinson.
Which was obviously the case also with Donald Beagle in the message
prior to mine, a man after my own heart. I don’t know if rum was
his tipple but he’s probably like me and knows how to enjoy himself.
And I bet you a dime to a donut he’s from New Jersey!
Might I say, Donald old chap, Beagle is a name that helped change our
conception of all life on this planet. I don’t need to tell you that
it was in HMS Beagle that Charles Darwin sailed on his epic voyage
to South America.
Bob Taylor
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