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see them often enough to pass the time o'day, and ^[[to pass]] the "buck" about army and navy matters.
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Tuesday 3/19/18

Let's see where [[?]] I - um -well, at first it was a little strange when we were out of sight of land and had dropped the pilot, and knew that we were heading up across the Atlantic on an eight or nine days trip, the last three days being "skeery" if any were to be. After we'd read the signs that "no smoking or showing of light after sunset!" and had investigated the lay of this 30 year old boat, Doug Kenyon and I repaired below admitting to each other that we were tired and in need of sleep. I partly undressed and was just getting comfortable in the unhappily narrow berth when an orderly appeared and announced