Simply titled: Shipmates
You and I, together, can weather the duty, the pains, the sacrifices, and the solitude.
My friends, my comrades, my brothers and sisters at arms, my shipmates; we’ll go it together
The great sea she calls with commitments to attend to, with distant shores on our path, and adversaries that desire to do us harm.
I would not go it alone, but, with you, my shipmates, my family, no obstacle or foe will stand in our way.
When you need me, I will be there, and I know you do the same.
Into harms way we surely will go, but I feel better and am at ease knowing that I am going with you….
My shipmates.
Written around 2008, out to sea, with some of the finest men and women the world has to offer. Passed today to honor the brave men and women that would sail the seas on behalf of supporting freedom and a better life for those around the world.
