The Importance of Preparedness

Powell: "You just get used to it. The thing that you wouldn't get used to if you were a newly married guy, and that was me and a lot of other guys too" Powell's wife found out her husband had been killed when an airplane went down in Houston. She called the duty officer and the white hat sailor who's on duty too. Next morning she saw two men with gold braid on their sleeves coming up the side of the building. They said, well, this is it. Steal myself. He says he still likes to tell it to his friends from time to time.