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{THE VIEW FROM THE BACK ROW} Norwegian Breakaway
By BENNY HORNSBY
Thu,01/26/23-3:00PM , 2,368 Reads
I’ve been on bigger ships; I’ve been on nicer ships; but this is the biggest, nicest ship I’ve ever been on.
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View from the Back Row: Non, je ne regrette rien
By BENNY HORNSBY
Thu,01/12/23-10:00AM , 2,841 Reads
Some say that, when you are old, you regret what you didn’t do, not what you did. You can laugh, but one of my regrets is that I didn’t join the French Foreign Legion when I had the chance.
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View from the Back Row: The first watch
By BENNY HORNSBY
Thu,12/29/22-3:00PM , 2,505 Reads
While many of us will spend at least some of our New Year’s Day holiday recording our “resolutions” for the coming year, I want to share a unique writing endeavor that perhaps very few know about: the rhyming New Year’s Eve naval deck log.
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View from the Back Row: Christmas birds
By BENNY HORNSBY
Thu,12/15/22-10:00AM , 2,600 Reads
A Christmas cardinal turned me into a pacificist. I was eight years old, and I killed it. It was a bird, not a Cardinal of the Church. I didn’t mean to. A neighbor boy let me shoot his new BB gun on Christmas morning, and I knocked the pretty bird right out of the old cedar tree behind our house.
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