When I was in high school, I flirted with wanting to go to the naval academy.
I was big into building model ships. I read about naval history. This was in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the U.S. still had the Iowa-class battleships in service as part of meeting President Ronald Reagan’s plan for a 600-ship navy. I loved battleships, and I spent an ungodly amount of time (and money) building models of the USS Missouri, the HMS Hood, and other floating fortresses. I wanted to captain one in real life.

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