Mickey

USS Hermitage LSD-34 Somewhere Over the Rainbow

 

Dear Cheryl,

 

What’s the haps?

 

Thought I’d send you some stuff
I picked up on my travels.
Hope you like the poem about Santa Claus.

 

Guess what? I qualified for Heads Helmsman.
(That’s the guy who steers the ship.)

 

Whenever we go through shallow water
I’ll be called up to steer.
I have to know everything about the Pilot House.
If I make one mistake
I could run aground or into another ship.

 

I can’t believe they’d give me so much
responsibility.

 

Later, Mickey

 

P.S. Last night I stepped into a card game
and walked out with $54.