Forty years ago
a tin can gets underway
steams from Tokyo Bay.
Bound for Japan's Sea
July 4 celebrations
left behind at shore.
Barbecues left cold
the only fireworks we'd see
our ship tossed at sea.
The typhoon ahead
days of ocean sail away
Calm waters that day.
Forty years ago
Sailors' liberty cancelled.
Young once, old today.
P.S. USS Parsons, DDG33, a guided missile destroyer or "tin can"
left Tokyo Bay before Bicentennial Celebrations this day in 1976
heading for the Sea of Japan (between Japan and Korea) and a
tropical storm with waves that would rise to 20 or 30 feet or more.
The ship's propeller often coming out of water causing the entire
vessel to vibrate madly and loudly. All so that we could monitor
the Russian fleet which rarely entered this section of ocean.
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