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On 2 January 1991, while aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Operation Desert Storm, Captain ‘O.W.’ Wright wrote a poem about Navy wives entitled “Loving a Sailor”. The poem was published in the March 1991 issue of “The Virginian Pilot” newspaper and that same month his wife Doni recited it at her church and sent it to a few of her friends. In 1999, it was published in a Navy wives’ club newsletter, “The Mermaid”. Since then Captain Wright’s poem has traveled the highways and byways of the electronic universe, often without attribution, becoming known as “The Sailor’s Poem”.

Loving a Sailor is not always gay,
Loving him truly is a high price to pay.
Its being alone with nothing to hold,
its being young but feeling so old,
Its having him whisper his love for you,
its whispering back you love him 86 plus two.
There comes a kiss and a promise of more
as his ship slowly glides away from the shore. ~~Continued

Thanks to “Mudville Gazette’s Open Post”.