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Salt on My Medallion

What the Sea Taught Me About Writing[image error]The author’s medallion, encrusted with salt from five years at sea.

To call a sailor a salt is to acknowledge his experience and competence — his hard-won knowledge of the sea. The green on my medallion is the salt from five years at sea.

I earned it aboard Navy destroyers: five years, three cruises to Vietnam, and one voyage around the world. That sa

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