Return To Stateside
On 1 September 1970, Whippoorwill concluded her final tour of duty along the coast of Vietnam. She steamed home — via Sasebo, Subic Bay, and Pearl Harbor — and arrived in Long Beach, California, on 12 November.
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Famous quotes containing the words return to and/or return:
“Lise: Look, monsieur, I don’t know what type of girl you think I am, but I’m not. And now I would like to return to my friends.
Jerry: I thought you were bored with them. You sure looked it.
Lise: You should see me now.
Jerry: Ouch.”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don’t always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our manoeuvres in our emergencies and longings.”
—Harold Brodkey (b. 1930)