By Bruce McCall The New Yorker, January 17 , 1994P. 72 Seven drawings, apparently unrelated, showing a picnic, a small boy, a woman with a baby, a man smiling, a French rocket boat, a woman in a straw hat, and a man playing cricket in arctic wastes.
Former Seaman First Class YOGI BERRA, who at the age of 18 manned a 36-foot rocket boat off Omaha Beach, was presented yesterday with the Medaille du Jubile in a brief ceremony at the institution that bears his name, the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Upper Montclair, N.J.
Monday's report said 27 coalition air attacks on Sunday and Monday struck nine vehicles, 12 troop units, 10 fighting positions (foxholes), 10 buildings, an oil refinery, a rocket launcher, three boats and a tank, among other targets.
He had a rocket pointed right at our boat.
Today, in its fullest account of the incident, the government released images from a Coast Guard plane's infrared camera that appeared to show a rocket streaking from the unidentified boat toward a Japanese vessel.
Last month, Iran conducted a rocket test near U.S. warships and boats passing through the narrow Strait of Hormuz, the route for about a fifth of the world's oil.
Fortunately, the boat had already seen the shark and fired a rocket, which scared the creature off.
Eyewitness Ray Dittrich said: "The boat came clean out of the water like a rocket and then it flipped over and landed on its back".
The "boys and their toys" explanation is the obvious one – once you've bought all the cars and boats and planes you want, why not buy a rocket?
