Creating A ripple

Once upon a hight (not quite midnight) as I pondered, if not weak at least weary there came a crashing on my door. Shoving aside change number 34 or was it 14, I staggered to the portal and was asked any, ordered to please produce some pears of wisdom for the SERVICE NEWS. I was weary enough to give in weakly.

But what to write? What would the avoid readers of the local news want to hear about the life and loves of the inmates of Briggs Hall? Were they truly interested in life among the WAVES or are they polite only in surrendering such precious space. Or could be they use us for filler?

Any Ideas?

At any rate the time had come when I must needs stir the stagnant gray matter away from thoughts of Portsmouth or Clearfields or the hills of Idaho. But what to say? Would the public like to know what goes on behind the closed doors of the good ship Briggs when the P. Listers are out frolicking?

Would they care at all that we struggle with the Navy red tape? Would they care that we try and try but still our efforts seem of no avail when we sit in class and try and try to figure pay accounts or balance our books? Or would they be more interested in other phases of the never ending Battle of Briggs?

Maybe they would be amused at our struggles with the phones, (who ever heard of sitting under dripping unmentionables to talk to the light of our lives ten thousand miles away) or of our mildewed washing that never dries all shut away from the light of day?

Maybe they would be more interested in how we like being in the Navy, anyway, Maybe they would rather hear how gratified we are when the V-12 boys really salute us and mean it, or how self conscious we are about the mutterings of civilians about our identity.

On the other hand they might like to know how we mastered (?) the art of looking military while staggering through Cambridge beneath our blue book bags, how we burn out our lamps making changes that will all be changed next month?