http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/eugene-b-fluckey-rear-admiral-us-navy-1913-2007/ Whiskey and Gunpowder features articles on gold, oil, currencies, emerging markets, energy, and more. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:22:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/eugene-b-fluckey-rear-admiral-us-navy-1913-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-20768 tj Tue, 17 May 2011 15:01:31 +0000 http://agoratestsite.com/wordpresswhiskey/?p=516#comment-20768 just finished "Thunder Below". Amazing stories but I feel that the true and continuing tension, terror and puckering of "battle stations torpedoes" or "battle stations guns" can never come close to being fully described or felt from the pages of a book. You had to have been there. Fluckey was such a wonderful writer with adventures only a handful of men have ever experienced and lived to tell of it but even he cant convey the emotional essence of the events. IMHO, if any man in that situation ever let the full emotional impact be felt, they would never recover even with intense therapy. just finished “Thunder Below”. Amazing stories but I feel that the true and continuing tension, terror and puckering of “battle stations torpedoes” or “battle stations guns” can never come close to being fully described or felt from the pages of a book. You had to have been there. Fluckey was such a wonderful writer with adventures only a handful of men have ever experienced and lived to tell of it but even he cant convey the emotional essence of the events. IMHO, if any man in that situation ever let the full emotional impact be felt, they would never recover even with intense therapy.

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