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Henry Rausch

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Henry Rausch graduated from Stanford University and after earning a commission at Officer Candidate School reported to USS L Mendel Rivers (SSN-686) in August 1985. There he served as an Engineering Assistant, Communicator, and Sonar Officer. The ship conducted four classified missions for which they were awarded the Meritorious Unit Citation, two Navy Expeditionary Medals, and the Arctic Service Ribbon. After that tour he served as Weapons Officer onboard USS Sunfish (SSN-649) which conducted deployments in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean. He left active service and served in the Reserves, primarily in NATO Submarine Command and Control. He retired as a Commander in 2005 with 22 years of service and lives with his wife in Harpers Ferr ...more

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I watched “You Can See Everything” expecting to see Josef Goebbels, but what I saw was the Rain Man.

First love. Fyre Fest. New Coke. So many over-promoted things haven’t lived up to their hype. Add to that the recent “documentary” by Nathan Fielder, which is less a documentary than “Interview with a Vampire”—a no-holds-barred cinema verité account of Elizabeth Holmes last thirty days before prison, followed by rather creepy reenactments and gotcha-style ambushes of her paramour and Rasputin stan

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Thoroughly enjoyed this; it reads like old-school King. Have to confess I am put off by the nagging quality of his new work, particularly the Holly series and Elevation, but this anthology has none of that. Highly recommended.
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Not his best. I’ve come to the expect mysandry and a severe anti-Christian bias from his later works; what I did not expect was the idiocy of the plot— all the events in the second half would not have happened if the Kate character got some real (mal ...more
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My dad was Master at Arms(the Sheriff) onboard USS Coral Sea in the 70s so this was of special interest to me. The incident, its context, and results are all described well. The only nit I had was that it seems to be written at the 4th grade reading ...more
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“Experience is the teacher that gives you the test before the lesson.”
― Henry Rausch, How to Hotwire an Airplane: A novel of regret and redemption

“Humans have a sixth sense that is so subtle that we take it for granted and don’t even consider it as a “sense” like the other five. But without this sense, walking is impossible. People who lose it are confined to a wheelchair. That sixth sense is proprioception, the awareness of the positions of all parts of one’s body. Close your eyes and consider where your arms, your hands, your head, your feet are. Move your hand in an arc above your head. As it moves, you are always aware of where your hand is relative to every single other part of your body. That is proprioception.”
― Henry Rausch, Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War

“Things happened way too quickly. I was reacting, not anticipating.”
― Henry Rausch, Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War

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