In 1983-84, USS Yosemite was the first Navy ship with women sailors and officers aboard to spend extended time at sea. The challenges and success of the deployment and integration of women into life aboard a Navy ship are included in this Naval officer’s memoir of that seven month deployment. more…

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The poems in this book are Jim Jewell. He selected them from 60 years of writing poetry. They capture the image of where he came from (Lebanon, Tennessee), who he is (many, many things) and how he feels about those many things. more…