I'm an old sailor with a mouth to prove it, dick. I really wanted to say {SMMFH -- I'm sure you get the "MF" part of that}, but chose to tone it down a little!🤣

I think we, Boomers have a responsibility to tell the younguns the damned truth (like you did about the Liberty) -- because, as you said, America WILL NOT DO IT!! As George Carlin once said, "That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it!”