The Salty 'Wog 

Ahoy shipmates and land-lubbers alike! Welcome to the Salty 'Wog. I chose the name for this website because I spent so many years (20+) in the great United States Navy and never made it across the equator. To the unknowing, a 'wog is short for a pollywog, a "newbie", an uninitiated sailor, and supposedly a lowly sea scum. When crossing the equator pollywogs, when I was in the navy, went through an initiation ceremony to become crusty old (?) shellbacks, rulers of the sea. Due to circumstances out of my control, I never got the chance to cross the equator, so I remain, to this day, a "Salty 'Wog!" 

This website is about my career in the great U.S. Navy and some of my related poetry. I do have another site, Mind's Eye Expressions, with much more poetry, if you're interested. To get there, just click on the "Mind's Eye Poetry" link below. I hope you enjoy what you see here. If you have any questions or comments, please click the "Email Me" button below.

Thanks for visiting my website!

Site Commissioned: 12/4/04
Last Yard Period: 10/15/07

PLACES TO GO

Copyright © 2000 - 2007 by David L. Henkel. All rights reserved. All writings on these pages are copyrighted, either by myself or by other authors. For anything that is copyrighted, including images, the source is given, if known. If you use anything on these pages, please mention the source and provide a link to the site of the source. Do not link directly to any of the material on these pages! These works are for your personal viewing only. If you wish to reproduce and/or distribute any of the works on these pages, you must first ask the author's permission.

                                       Many thanks to the following for their support in building this website. They helped with each page but I will only be giving them credit on this page:

(page design)

Thanks to the following for their support in the building of this page:

LAURA'S
MIDI
HEAVEN
(music)

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