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 a Autobiogravey of my life from 1938, when I was born until 1975 when I retired from the Navy. I didn't know anything about writing a book, and still don't, but I have always had the knack of making my brain remember things that happened long ago. I have probrely violated every rule of good book writing know to man. But I will chock it up to inexerance, 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 200 years, I tried very hard to not bring Dishonor to the Navy, My family, or Myself.