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rckt148 · 61-69, M
I have shared often but don't mind sharing again .
I served with a real Hero in service ,
He went by the handle "Rocket"
He drove a tear drop top Corvette that ran about 160 .
When it come to saving lives he was fast and the best I have ever seen ,
do things with a boat most people would think was impossible ,you would think pulling someone out of the water he was trying to run them over ,,but when he went from full forward to full reverse
you could literally reach down ,and the person was right there and with someone in the water ,ever second counts .
But he was like that with everything ,deadly accurate with a weapon ,throwing a line ,spotting the right boat ,picking out things that just didn't look right .
I hated him at first ,,He had a way of making you feel stupid if you didn't know you're stuff ,,so he made all those around him be better too .
He was killed in his Vet ,,not much left of it .or him .
But he left behind a legacy ,and a lot of people who loved and respected him .
He made me one of the best kid coxswains ever .we were the best of the best .
So in memory of him my screen name was Rocket .
But I was off the net for a while ,forgot my password .so since there were no cell phones when I made the account ,I didn't have a means to recover them .
So rckt was as close as I could get ,,and there were already 147 of them .
Shows how long I have been on the net .
I actually had the only Rocket for a time ,until I forgot my password to log in
Not on SW ,on AOL with an Altell dial up account .
I served with a real Hero in service ,
He went by the handle "Rocket"
He drove a tear drop top Corvette that ran about 160 .
When it come to saving lives he was fast and the best I have ever seen ,
do things with a boat most people would think was impossible ,you would think pulling someone out of the water he was trying to run them over ,,but when he went from full forward to full reverse
you could literally reach down ,and the person was right there and with someone in the water ,ever second counts .
But he was like that with everything ,deadly accurate with a weapon ,throwing a line ,spotting the right boat ,picking out things that just didn't look right .
I hated him at first ,,He had a way of making you feel stupid if you didn't know you're stuff ,,so he made all those around him be better too .
He was killed in his Vet ,,not much left of it .or him .
But he left behind a legacy ,and a lot of people who loved and respected him .
He made me one of the best kid coxswains ever .we were the best of the best .
So in memory of him my screen name was Rocket .
But I was off the net for a while ,forgot my password .so since there were no cell phones when I made the account ,I didn't have a means to recover them .
So rckt was as close as I could get ,,and there were already 147 of them .
Shows how long I have been on the net .
I actually had the only Rocket for a time ,until I forgot my password to log in
Not on SW ,on AOL with an Altell dial up account .