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▶ 36:25
after the attack, we were headed to Malta, which was 1,000 miles away from where we got attacked. We got a 40-by-40 torpedo hole in our side, and they sent us all the way to Malta when the closest port was Crete. We never could figure that …
▶ 40:05
So can you tell the audience where Crete is in relationship to where you guys were? Oh, it's probably, I don't know, a day steaming several hundred miles. What country is it part of? Yeah, I'm not sure. I haven't asked that before. Okay, be…
▶ 40:37
Hold on just a second. Okay, good. I'm going to learn something here. Crete is part of Greece. Okay. Greece is part of NATO. NATO attacked you guys. NATO was behind all of this. You were not allowed to go to Crete because you would have bee…
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Ten years later, after a fellow bonesman was in Greece. Okay. 1893, Greece has a national bankruptcy. The government falls and is replaced by a government of Deligianus, who's a nationalist anti-Ottoman. Bit of a dictator. This leads in 189…