Greasy Pork Chops
I caught up with the Spangler in Pearl Harbor in July '57, straight out of boot camp. The first night we were at sea some of the guys were having a little fun with me and asked if I knew what was for chow that evening. I laughed and said "Greasy pork chops!" They laughed back and said, "Yep, that's what we are having!" And, sure enough, that's what we had that evening, greasy pork chops! I've never been so sick as I was after eating chow that evening. I climbed up the ladder from the galley and went on deck, I was so sick I didn't know what I was doing. I was throwing up all over the place! Fortunately someone else cleaned it up, I discovered, I didn't! The ocean was so calm it was like a looking glass. I went under the tarp of one of the deck guns and they couldn't find me until some one seen my foot sticking out from under the tarp. They though I had fallen over board and I caught hell, but at the time I really didn't care.