"ive lost a fair few when i ran the Iwo all you really can do is honor them and make the bastards that killed em pay,ive learnt though that if you use revenge to justify killing somebody your no better then the pirates and drug dealers and slavers we sometimes run-into"
He took a hit from the bottle supressing a painful memory he failed andit came out he dare not say there names
"i had a pair of officers,they ran the Combat Infomation Center on the Iwo now when i picked em they we're just your atypical first liutenants it was about 3 months into a mision i was on when they approched me and asked that i marry them as per tradition being the ships commanding officer,so i did-- he paused collecting himself"two weeks later we got ambushed cic took a direct impact hell the damned morter gutted a fair part of "A Deck" or deck 001 in naval terms,we fought em off but the two liutenants died infront of me...the female was 3 months pregnat,had i know i never would of taken her aboard for the mission... they wanted me to be the kids godfather, they were 19 and 22 years old,i myself am going on 30i later found out they had met in basic.....god that letter was painful there was nothing i could of done nto prevent them but ill be damned if i ever get back in that chair that i let it happen again Iwo is a Marine ship through and through,not a Navyman on her aside from medical and a few enginerring personell"
he sighed"you probably think im heartless,im not ive just learnt to not allow my emotions cause impulse reactions...ive learned to command i guess youd call it"
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