Fran, thank you so very much kind words of endorsement of my book "Frozen Fury: The Murmansk Run of Convoy PQ-13". Many thanks to Steve Myer for allowing me to include his "The Murmansk Run" poem; it just seemed so fitting for it to be there.

Yes, we do tend to think of ourselves and our fellow seafarers as boys in dress blues, but then reality sets in. At 87 I still feel young so why can't I move as fast as I used to?...