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A Sea Story
About a year ago, I came to the conclusion that none of my children or grandchildren knew much about my life and what I had done with it, so I decided to write an autobiography of my life from 1938, when I was born, until 1975, when I retired from the navy. I didnt know anything about writing a book, and still dont, but I have always had the knack of making my brain remember things that happened long ago. I have probably violated every rule of good book writing known to man. But I will chock it up to inexperience; also I wanted to write it as though I was talking to you, face-to-face. I took the name of my book from the slang words used by sailors to describe the stories told among each other for some two hundred years. I tried very hard to not bring dishonor to the navy, my family, or myself.
Sea Story
Has anyone ever asked you to live in their world? Has anyone ever demanded that you live in theirs and lose yourself in the process? With his own aging reality steadily turning white and sterile around him, an elderly sea captain who is confined to a dreary nursing home intimidates a young Jamaican artist into bringing color back into his life. "They've made me blind and left me one small window," he confides to the girl. "They've put me into this clean white cell and are tryin' to suck the life out of me." Thundering his defiance he declares, "But I used to be somebody! And I ain't a'sailin' away all that easy for nobody!" "Paint me room," he orders. So begins the story of the final days of Captain Walter B. Roberts, who navigates a thin line on a course set between the facts and fiction of his adventurous life at sea. Using colorful examples from a very questionable past, he belligerently berates all around him. "Can you see the world from where you be sittin' now? Well, stand up! Don't be a coward! Be something, or somebody, and be it well! You've got to live life the best way that you can, with no regrets." Fine, but what if you think you're a three-hundred-year-old pirate? Or is that just plain crazy? About the Author Other books by Ron Dull include Mount Bellew and Go With
A Sea Story:A Semi-Fictional Account of Life Aboard a Coast Guard Cutter
Semi-fictional account of a typical patrol aboard a Coast Guard cutter conducting drug enforcement and Search and Rescue missions in the Caribbean .