CAPT. S. M. SHELTON, USN
Commanding Officer
CDR. E. L. CRANCE, USN
Executive Officer
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ADAK
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CHAPLAINS CORNER ,
"JUST PLAIN BILL"
By:. Francis A. Fay
Once upon a time- in a middle-sized’
town there was a very ordinary young
3an named Bill, He lived with his
parents who were good people. They
taught ' him all the' things they,
thought he should know to be a .good
man.
Bill learned as much watching his
parents as he did listening .to them.
Because the family went to Church ev
ery Sunday, Bill came to-realize’that
this was the best way to worship God.
His father was always so courteous
and thoughtful■to’all women that Bill •
decided that it..wa.s manly to respect
.every woman. Bill1 s..mother was' so
devoted to his father that he knew
.that: real happiness .came,, from having
a good woman for a wife.'* Since he
would never, think of offending or em
barrassing his parents,' Bill was
careful about his language.
One day Bill decided that he was
jld enough and smart enough to leave "•
Lome. ' He wanted to learn more and •
ee new places and meet, people, so
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he joined the Navy* Sill! slather and
toother were very sad to see hin go far
away, but they were proud that he was
.grown Up enough to serve his Country.
Bill went to Great Lakes. It was
too cold; he never had enough tine to
. hinself; people were always shouting
I at hin; he was a little honesick. But
. on graduation day he felt ten feet
’ tall.
When he reported aboard his first
1 ship he felt ten inches tall. He
‘watched and listened and learned.
■Pretty soon he was used to life at sea
and liked it. He liked his shipmates
too, but he could not get used to the
pictures they looked at, the books and
'magazines.' they read or some of the
conversations they held. These things
were disrespectful to all women. His
shipmates said these. things were
proofs of manliness, but Bill remem
bered with admiration the manliness of
his father. He respected womanhood
too.much to collect and1 display pic
tures or to.,talk about then that way.
Some ridiculed him, but after a while
he learned to take it.
Bill always had fun when he went
ashore, but he stayed away from cer
tain people and places, because he
still considered marriage to a good
woman the sure way to happiness.
At. his first.shore station Bill was
glad to have the opportunity to go to
Church every Sunday. He' was surprised
at the small number in the Chapel, be
cause at .Great Lakes everyone had
gone. Bill listened, and -discovered
that most of the men in his, barracks
said it was not necessary to go to
Dhua^ch. He began to wonder whether he
was wrong about things..
Maybe it was not necessary to go to
Church; maybe it would not • hurt his
Chance for a happy marriage to' go' out
with any girl; maybe ; it was not manly
to respect womanhood; maybe he . need
not control his language. He'worried
and thought and talked' to his buddies*
He -kept on. doing what he thought was
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