you do not have to come back!"
"A ship was stranded off Cape Hatteras on the Diamond Shoals and one of the life saving crew reported the fact that this ship had run ashore on the dangerous shoals. The old skipper gave the command to man the lifeboat and one of the men shouted out that we might make it out to the wreck but we would never make it back. The old skipper looked around and said, "The Blue Book says we've got to go out and it doesn't say a damn thing about having to come back."
Clarence P. Brady's account (Retired US Coast Guard) of Patrick Etheridge's remark while Commanding Officer and Keeper of the Pea Island Life Saver Station
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