Lessons from My 98-year-old Dad: The Hot Running Torpedo
by Harper Brame as told to Marilynn Chadwick
I was barely 18 when I entered the Navy. But I have a lifetime of memories from my tour of duty as a submarine sailor. It's been such a long time since I've thought about that blue whale. It's funny how things can suddenly come to mind out of nowhere.
It's sort of like the time we had a hot running torpedo on the sub. The captain quickly sent us to the front of the sub where we went below if we didn't have required duties to bring it under control. There was a very real danger of explosion, and we had 24 loaded torpedoes. If that thing had gone…
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