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'Midwatch in Verse'

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A new book about a little-known Navy tradition, written by a pair of retired professors from John Brown University, offers a peek into young sailors’ thoughts as the world was at war. “Midwatch in Verse,” by Gary Guinn and Dave Johnson, explores the tradition of the year's first first dock log on naval ships being written as a poem.

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