Little Ball of H**e wrote:
When I was in the Navy, we were sailing from Long Beach to Hawaii. We were about half way there, when I went out on the fantail around midnight. The sky was perfectly clear. There was a new moon. The Milky Way was like a splash of paint across the sky. If you've never seen it, no words can possibly describe it. I couldn't even find a photo, on Google, that even begins to do it justice. Has anyone ever experienced a night sky like that?
I was Navy 59 to 62 out of San Diego. MM engine room on a small DE. Two West Pac cruises.
I have seen so many beautiful sunsets and cloud formations that would just blow every ones mind. I never had any camera experience because of my family situation so I didn't think to take any pictures. I still have most of them in my mind and shed some tears sometimes recalling them.
Those were some of my best Navy happy times.