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Dear Aaa Landers: A friend
whom I've know for 40 years has
always one-upped me every time
T've made « statement. Anything I
have seen or done, he also see or
done — aly he did it better

‘The straw that finally broke the
camél’s back came when « small
group Of us were discussing
storms at sea. 1 was in the process
of telling about returning from the
Pacific in 1945. Our troop ship
was on the fringe of the storm that
almost wiped Okinawa off the
map. Waves and swells were so
high that the bow of the ship was
constantly being washed down by
water.

by Walter D. Feener

My ever-ready PP

remarked that this was nothing
compared to HIS experience. He
said the waves and swells on the
ship he was on were so high they
washed the flight deck down on an
aircraft carrier.

Ann,-woulda’t a wave h:
be 80 feet or 100 feet
order to that? And if so.
seems to mé that every island in
the Pacific, not to mention every
smaller ship #& sea, would have
been sent to the bottom of the
ocean.

If you tell me that there have
been waves that washed over the
flight deck of any aircraft carrier

re, any time, I'll eat my
hat. Meanwhile, how cam I deal
with this person? — Fed Up With
Being Put Down in Texas.

Dear Fed: We spoke with Lt.
Conrad Chun, a Navy spokesman
at the Pentagon. He said the flight
deck of an aircraft carrier is about
60 feet above the water line.

it in theoretically possi-
ble for a wave to be high enough
te wash over the deck, he has

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