Oh please Mr.  Hawkins rub your Norman Rockwell calendar again. Once your  $$$ leaves your hand it is no longer under your control. So it is with YOUR TAX PAYMENT!

As for NOLF Coupeville it was paid for many times over not in coin of the realm but in blood, by those few who trained there and did not return from mission ordered. To the benefit of the many who did return from missions ordered.

Yes I  too like fairytales of this nation but on a birthday not celebrated joined hands of fellow shipmates in the recovery shipmates never met. Reality over took the place of faith and fairytales regarding this nation and it's citizens.