Let Bull be Bull
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
My father’s Coast Guard Cutter (once) accidentally received a shipment of steaks meant for a large number of ships, asked if their ship would meet up with another to swap, the captain said “nope, our assigned tasks are too important.”
My father described steak for breakfast, lunch and dinner as awesome (and a moral booster beyond compare).
My late Father-in-Law was a Navy cook during World War II and in the Fifties. During World War II for four months on a ship he served on the only meat was mutton, not a popular meat to begin with. He tried everything he could think of to serve it in different ways. He said that at the end of the four months the crew was near mutiny!
The food aboard my submarine was rather good while supplies lasted. The cooks did a very good job keeping us well fed. As I have said elsewhere, the only two reasons for a submarine to surface are (1) food and (2) toilet paper, since we made all our own fresh water and air from the electricity provided by a 190MWth pressurized water reactor that didn’t need refueling but once every 20 years of so (nowadays it’s more like 40 years, the life of the boat).