I lost a good friend today.
JD and I were close to the same age, went into the Navy within a couple of years of each other ( me in '69, JD in '72), became ETs ( he went Comm, I was Radar), both wound up working for hp as Techs in '80. With the Navy in common, we were able to, for the lack of a better phrase "agree to disagree" on current events and issues ... because, after all was said and done, we remained shipmates, just assigned to different ships.