oh really? I'll take that bet.
Jim Webb's book, "A Sense of Honor" written in 1981 -which I got in hardback early the next year -about a year in the life of midshipmen at the Naval Academy, remains my favorite novel. I gave it to my wife to read when we first got married as a way of explaining to her what my academy experience was like.
Being an Naval Academy graduate myself, I was really pleased when he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by Ron Reagan.
It was well known at the boat school that Jim Webb was a hell of a boxer and a damned fine marine.
Did you know who beat him in the USNA Brigade Boxing championships in 1968? I do. Ollie North.
Now.... at a thousand to one odds, I'll put up a nickel or are those too high stakes for you?
Don't you feel like a fucking idiot?
I would settle for an apology.
asshole.