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From Big to Enormous: Evolution of the U.S. Battleship
For nearly a hundred years, U.S. battleships commanded respect on the oceans while also earning the love of the brash breed of Sailors who served in them.
During the latter part of the 19th century and nearly all of the 20th, battleships were important weapons in the U.S. Navy's arsenal. For the first several decades of that time, battleships were considered the foremost warships of the fleet—a force that embodied the nation's strength. Their big guns made them the center of attention wherever they went. Even after battleships were supplanted in primacy during World War II, they continued to be potent in new roles and demonstrated remarkable longevity. Throughout their service lives, even as technology advanced and the ships became ever larger and more sophisticated, there was a constant: They were operated and loved by a breed of men with a special swagger—battleship Sailors.
The first real action for U.S. battleships came in the 1898 Spanish-American War. Part of the war was fought in the Philippines, but the bulk of it was on and around the island of Cuba. The conflict's most notable battleship was the USS Oregon (BB-3), which was on the West Coast when the war started. To get to the action, she had to steam from San Francisco, around South America's Cape Horn, and on to Florida before heading to Cuba. The inconvenience of the voyage demonstrated the need for the construction of the Panama Canal in succeeding years.
The key naval engagement in the conflict was the Battle of Santiago, off the south coast of Cuba, on 3 July 1898, and the participating U.S. battleships were the Indiana (BB-1), Iowa (BB-4), Oregon, and Texas (a second-class battleship). They chased and fired on a succession of Spanish cruisers, eventually disabling them and driving them to shore. Midshipman Daniel Mannix had a battle station in the conning tower of the Indiana that gave him a great spot to observe the action. He watched as Sailors took off their hats, neckerchiefs, jumpers, and undershirts while they ran to man the guns. To him the bare-chested gun crews resembled Roman gladiators.
Mannix also saw some of the misadventures that occur in the heat of combat. He had the job of relaying information from a shipmate named McDowell, who was operating a range finder. At one point a Spanish projectile sent up a spout of water near the Indiana. Soon afterward Mannix saw that McDowell had bright red holes on both sides of one calf. With the battle in progress, McDowell had been so excited that he dropped his pistol, which fell to the deck, went off, and shot him through the lower leg.
A different kind of mishap befell another Indiana midshipman. A Spanish mortar shell hit his room and destroyed most of his uniforms, leaving him with only one pair of trousers, which were worn through in the seat. When the victorious fleet later hosted visitors in New York City, the midshipman found it necessary to be seated or else stand against a bulkhead if ladies were present. So go the fortunes of war.
U.S. Battleships Steam onto the World Stage
In 1901 Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency and began pursuing an aggressive naval policy that concentrated on building up the U.S. Fleet's battleships. He also called for a palpable demonstration of his nation's naval power. In late 1907 he dispatched a group of 16 battleships, dubbed the "Great White Fleet," on a trip around the world that would last until just before he left office in 1909. Critics jumped on it as a jingoistic venture, but the voyage had the benefit of giving the fleet seagoing experience at long distances, and it spoke of America's will to be a world power.
One of the ships on the cruise was the USS Kearsarge (BB-5), and her crew included Apprentice Harry Morris. He had enlisted in the Navy in 1903, soon after he turned 14. Morris had an amazing career on active duty; he did not retire until 1958, after more than a half-century of service. During the course of the voyage he acquired a sea bag full of experience. The ships started from Norfolk, went around the bottom of South America, then to California, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, China, Japan, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and back to Norfolk.
In China, the American fleet honored the dowager empress of the country. She reciprocated by giving presents of cloisonné china to the ships' crews. Each officer received a vase, and each enlisted man got a teacup. Harry Morris carefully protected his cup on the journey home and then held on to it for more than 60 years afterward. It was a tangible souvenir from an exciting adventure during his teenage years.
In Australia the American Navy men found themselves quite popular with the local lasses, who seemed to prefer them to the Aussie men with whom they were more familiar. Hundreds of relationships blossomed in short order. Given such diversions, the visiting Sailors found it difficult to return to their ships on time. In fact, the Kansas (BB-21) stayed behind to round up latecomers after the rest of the fleet had sailed off to its next destination. Even that wasn't sufficient to bring in everybody; more than 100 of the Americans deserted and stayed behind with their newfound companions. They had indeed found pleasure in the traditional recruiting pledge, "Join the Navy and see the world."
In the years that followed, the battleship force continued to modernize as newer and bigger ships joined the fleet. When the European nations plunged into World War I in 1914, the United States stayed on the sidelines for a few years before joining the conflict in April 1917. The U.S. ships that had the biggest part of the action were the troop transports that ferried Soldiers and Marines to the war zone and the antisubmarine vessels that coped with Germany's U-boats. In late 1917 the United States finally sent over a division of older battleships to support Britain's Grand Fleet. The newer ones, which burned oil, were kept back on the East Coast as training ships because the supply of coal in the British Isles was more plentiful than oil.
As it happened, even though the U-boats remained active, the German surface fleet didn't venture out for battle after engaging the British in the huge Battle of Jutland in 1916. The American battleships were on hand and available but not needed. Captain Edward L. Beach was commanding officer of the U.S. flagship New York (BB-34) when hostilities ended in November 1918. On 21 November, ten days after the armistice that ended the fighting, Germany's capital ships steamed to the Firth of Forth in Scotland to surrender. Captain Beach observed that the peaceful outcome was a letdown for the officers of Britain's Royal Navy, who had hoped for a victory at sea. As he put it, "This was not the way they had hoped to destroy the German High Seas Fleet."
The Dirty Side of Sailor Life
Even after the war ended, most of the U.S. battleships still had coal-fired boilers, and many of them remained in the fleet for a number of years. Coaling a ship was tedious and physically demanding. The battleship either moored next to a coaling pier or had a collier or barge alongside. Winches then dumped coal on the decks of the ships. Just about everybody participated in the process of shoveling the coal down chutes and into the storage bunkers below. Coal dust filled the air and coated the bodies of the sailors.
Midshipman Fred Edwards, who made a cruise on board the Michigan (BB-27) around 1920, joked years afterward that his face was so black when he went into the head that he was unrecognizable in the mirror. Even showering didn't completely solve the problem. In the mid-1920s, Midshipman Jimmy Thach was at a dance ashore not long after helping move the coal. The exertion of dancing led him to sweat, and coal dust began bleeding down from his eyebrows. It gave him the effect of wearing mascara—perhaps not the best way to make a favorable impression on a date.
Once the coal was on board, there was an art to seeing that it was used properly in firing the boilers that made steam to turn a battleship's engines. Sailors piled up the coal on the floor plates and used a certain technique to spread a pattern of lumps evenly across the roaring fire. The sweating sailors used slice bars to break up the clinkers that developed from the burned coal. In the early 1920s, Fireman Charles Herget reported to the Delaware (BB-28) after receiving training ashore. He was among those who transferred coal from the bunkers to the floor plates. After taking part in the arduous labor, he decided, "hell can't be any worse than this."
It wasn't always so bad, though, especially when his ship was steaming at a relatively slow speed and the demand for coal was reduced. On those occasions he and his shipmates put together night rations. They got meat, onions, and potatoes from galley stores and cooked their own stew by thrusting a coal scoop full of ingredients into a boiler firebox until it was ready.
A Good Job During Tough Times
The Navy was able to skim the cream of the crop in recruiting and retaining quality enlisted men during the Depression years of the 1930s. Ships provided steady employment, which often was not available in the civilian economy. Many of those enlisted men became officers during World War II. One was Radioman Al Pelletier, who was in the communications gang of the fleet flagship Pennsylvania (BB-38). He was on board in 1933 when the ship hosted the change of command as Admiral David Sellers took over as commander-in-chief U.S. Fleet. In 1934 the fleet's battleships journeyed to the East Coast for review by President Franklin D. Roosevelt outside New York City. Pelletier and his shipmates were then unleashed for liberty in the city, which he termed "a sailor's dream." Included was a trip to Yankee Stadium to see Babe Ruth play—quite a contrast to the plight of those in bread lines.
Another for whom the Navy provided salvation was Doug Merritt, who rode many a freight train in search of work during the 1930s. He enlisted as an apprentice seaman in 1940 as a step toward earning an officer's commission. That autumn he rode the Arkansas (BB-33), which had been commissioned in 1912 and was the oldest battleship in the fleet, during a training cruise to Panama and Cuba. His berthing compartment was a casemate for one of the ship's 5-inch broadside guns. He abandoned attempts at sleeping in a hammock and settled for a berth on the steel deck instead. He also learned how to polish bright work and scrub a deck, that privacy was at a minimum in the primitive head facilities on board, and that loud-mouthed boatswain's mates meant what they said. One day each week he could count on breakfast being baked beans, cornbread, and coffee.
Still another lesson came in observing civilization beyond the shores of his native land. In Panama he saw poverty even worse than he had experienced in his hobo days. It was a formative experience for the 20-year-old Merritt. He went from the Arkansas to midshipman school, became an officer, and served with distinction as a submariner in World War II.
Under Fire at Pearl Harbor
Battleships were the main targets for the Japanese on the day that the war started for the United States. The objective of their 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack was to knock the big ships there out of commission. On board the Arizona (BB-39), 1,177 men perished, about 80 percent of the crew. Machinist's Mate Ardenne "Bill" Woodward was 20 years old at the time and recently married. He was due to get out of the Navy in the summer of 1942 when his enlistment expired. In the summer and fall of 1941 he wrote a series of letters to his wife, Virginia. Their daughter, Karen, was born in July of that year, shortly after the Arizona left California for the last time. In the letters he expressed feelings of longing, a desire to be with his wife and child. He never saw his daughter because he was at his battle station when the Arizona exploded that December morning.
A shipmate of his was Gunner's Mate Jack McCarron, who was at his post on one of the ship's 5-inch antiaircraft guns soon after Japanese planes appeared overhead. Just as he was about to load a projectile into the gun, the explosion that engulfed the ship blew him overboard and into the harbor, where he drifted in and out of consciousness. The crew of a motor launch rescued him and took him to Ford Island. He regained consciousness about three days later and discovered he had been badly burned and his head was swathed in bandages. When the bandages eventually came off, he was horrified by his appearance and wrote to his recent bride, Roberta, that she should forget about him because he was no longer the man she had married. Fortunately, she was not that easily dismissed, and the couple enjoyed more than 60 years of marriage together.
Wilbur Wright's retelling of events at Pearl Harbor
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For Ensign Paul Backus of the Oklahoma (BB-37), Honolulu had proved to be a bachelor's paradise. There were plenty of places to take dates, particularly the schoolteachers who came out from the mainland on board cruise ships. As he remembered years afterward: "The dance floor of the Royal Hawaiian . . . was hard to beat. . . . There, with Diamond Head in the background and the breaking surf luminous in the moonlight, all resistance was said to dissolve." But that halcyon way of life abruptly came to an end with the arrival of the Japanese aircraft. On that fateful Sunday morning Backus was on board the Oklahoma as she took a bevy of torpedoes, listed to port, and then capsized completely. As she did so, Backus slid down the side of the ship and into the water. After his rescue, he moved on to other duty and a full career in the Navy.
More than 30 years after his ship sank, Backus returned to Oahu and visited the Punch Bowl Memorial Cemetery. As he toured the grave markers, he found the names of many of his shipmates, some of whom he had known well. During his walk among the graves he plaintively asked himself a question about those lost shipmates: "Why them and not me?"
"Battlewagons'" Role during World War II
Battleships performed a variety of missions in World War II, most notably providing antiaircraft protection in fast-carrier task groups and bombarding enemy-held beaches in connection with amphibious landings. One of the rare exceptions—in which battleships served in their intended mission of trading heavy gunfire with enemy combatants—came in mid-November 1942 during the naval Battle of Guadalcanal. U.S. Marines had captured the island's airfield, and the Japanese relentlessly tried to retake it. Key to their efforts were the nocturnal "Tokyo Express" missions by Japanese warships to reinforce their troops on the island and bombard American positions. On the night of 14-15 November, Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. commanded a task force built around the Washington (BB-56) and South Dakota (BB-57) as it fought a close-range gunnery duel with Japanese surface combatants.
Lieutenant Al Church was on the flag bridge of the Washington when the battleship's big 16-inch guns began to light up the night sky. The concussion knocked the admiral's glasses to the deck, so he and Church groped around for them as the battle continued. An officer on board a nearby American destroyer watched in awe as the 16-inch projectiles emerged from gun barrels, their tails glowing cherry red; were hidden for a time by low clouds; and then reemerged to conclude their parabolic flights by striking Japanese warships. That battle, which resulted in the sinking of the battleship Kirishima, turned the tide in the campaign for possession of Guadalcanal.
One other such big-gun engagement was at the October 1944 Battle of Surigao Strait, in the Philippines. This was the closest the U.S. and Japanese navies came to fulfilling the plans for a big-ship encounter they had envisioned for many years before World War II. Six U.S. battleships formed a column that capped the T of Japanese ships steaming to engage them. Three of the American ships, the Tennessee (BB-43), California (BB-44), and West Virginia (BB-48), had been rebuilt after being badly damaged at Pearl Harbor. They had modern fire-control systems that put their 14- and 16-inch projectiles on target with great effectiveness. Lieutenant Bob Bamrucker, on board the West Virginia, watched as shells from his ship hit the Japanese battleship Yamashiro, which sank during the fight. On board the Pennsylvania during that engagement was Ensign Ed Snyder. More than 24 years later he took command of the New Jersey (BB-62) when she was preparing to go to Vietnam.
While most of the battleship action during the war was in the Pacific, a few U.S. battleships operated in the European theater. The old Arkansas, Nevada (BB-36), and Texas (BB-35) bombarded shore positions during the 6 June 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy, France. One of the crewmen on board the Arkansas was Corporal Irvin Airey, a member of the ship's Marine detachment. Gunfire from German batteries ashore sent shrapnel onto the battleship's deck. Airey watched with satisfaction as the Arkansas blasted back with her 12-inch guns. Years later he remembered that he was excited rather than scared that day, but he did see lines of worry on the faces of some of the sergeants who had families back home.
The ship next supported the Allied invasion of southern France in August 1944 before heading back to the States en route to the Pacific. While Airey was home on leave in Baltimore, two Army MPs stopped him and demanded to see his leave papers. They also wanted to know why he had a campaign ribbon from Europe. When he told them he had been in D-Day, their reaction was, "The hell you were over there." They expected all Marines to be in the Pacific, but Airey was a battleship man on the other side of the world.
World War II came to a ceremonial end on the deck of the Missouri (BB-63). Even though she was a relative newcomer to the war, the ship got the honor of hosting the 2 September 1945 surrender because she was named for the home state of President Harry S. Truman. Gunner's Mate Walt Yucka was among the hundreds of Missouri crewmen who watched the surrender ceremony in awe. Years later, when his memory of the event once again rekindled the emotions he felt, he said: "That was the greatest thrill of my life. The war was over." Millions of Americans had survived and would be going home. Another Missouri man, Seaman Joe Vella, had longed for his home in Connecticut when the ship was overseas. But when it did come time for him to depart, he did so wistfully. After many months on board, building bonds with his shipmates, the battleship had become a home for him.
The Iowa Class Weathers the Post-War Years
Once the hostilities ceased, the Navy—like the rest of the U.S. armed forces—demobilized rapidly to "bring the boys home." The U.S. Navy ended the war with 23 battleships in commission. By 1949 only one remained—the Missouri—and that was because President Truman decreed that she stay in service. By then her role had essentially been turned into that of a training ship.
The following year, 1950, the Korean War broke out, and the Missouri was sent overseas as a fully combatant ship. Soon the Navy began breaking out her sister ships—class namesake Iowa (BB-61), Wisconsin (BB-64), and New Jersey—from the mothball fleet to send them to Korea as well. The first to go was the New Jersey. Many of her new crew members were World War II veterans who had left active duty and gone into the Naval Reserve. Now they were uprooted from their civilian careers and family lives. One of those was Bob Storm, a gunner's mate who was called back to service to help operate one of the battleship's 16-inch gun turrets. He took a pay cut to return to naval service.
One of his shipmates during the Korean War was Seaman Charles Jacobus. Battleship life was a special pleasure for him. The ship's commanding officer, Captain David Tyree, cared for the crew and demonstrated it by his actions. One night Jacobus carried a fresh pot of coffee while Tyree carried cups. The skipper gave a cupful to each member of the watch section as a tangible way of demonstrating his appreciation for the Sailors' work.
On nights when he wasn't on watch, Jacobus lay in his bunk as the ship's bugler blew the tattoo call five minutes before lights out, and then taps itself. He enjoyed that time as a period of quiet satisfaction to reflect on the events of the day on board ship. Years later, after he had left active duty, Jacobus created a special battleship room in his home in New Jersey. It was decorated with pictures of the ship and examples of fancy knot work he had done as a boatswain's mate and featured a special man-size horizontal niche recessed into one wall. When he wanted to get into a true battleship mood, he'd climb into the opening and imagine himself back in his bunk on board the New Jersey.
Eventually, all four of the Iowa-class battleships took part in the Korean War. One role was to provide antiaircraft protection, but the air threats to the fleet were scant during that period, so they spent most of their time in shore bombardment and fire support of United Nations troops. The Missouri performed yeoman service with her bombardment at the port of Hungnam during a desperate rear-guard evacuation in December 1950 after U.S. Marines had retreated from the Chosin Reservoir. The ships also served in rotation as flagship for commander Seventh Fleet.
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The ship-designing cooks kept to that same general formula for the next few years, and the battleships continued to be named for states—except one. The USS Kearsarge (BB-5), commissioned in 1900, honored the name of a wooden-hulled Union screw sloop that sank the Confederate raider Alabama off Cherbourg, France, in 1864.
In 1906, the Royal Navy revolutionized battleship design with HMS Dreadnought, which pioneered the all-big-gun format that became standard from then on. Two comparable U.S. battleships, the South Carolina (BB-26) and Michigan (BB-27), had been on the drawing boards earlier but were not completed until 1910. The main battery of each ship included eight 12-inch guns, and the secondary battery comprised 22 3-inchers. These two and all subsequent battleships were known generically as "dreadnoughts" because of their British predecessor.
A next step up came with the New York (BB-34) and Texas (BB-35), which were commissioned in 1914, on the eve of World War I. They mounted main batteries of twin 14-inch guns. The Nevada (BB-36) class, which entered service in 1916, was the first built with boilers fueled by oil rather than coal. That same year brought the Pennsylvania (BB-38) and Arizona (BB-39), each with four turrets of three 14-inch guns. In the hype of their day, they were known as "super dreadnoughts." In the next few years the trend line continued toward bigger ships with the same basic armament package. Then came the jump to 16-inch guns with the commissioning of the Maryland (BB-46) in 1921.
The bigger-and-better trend was, however, interrupted by the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-22. The world's naval powers had been depleted financially by the recently completed global war and sought a way to stop the spending. Battleships represented the biggest investments in a nation's arsenal and became prime targets. In the naval treaty of 1922, the various nations agreed to a moratorium on battleship construction and a limitation on their size. Work was already in progress for the six ships of the South Dakota (BB-49) class. Each of these behemoths was to displace more than 40,000 tons, stretch nearly 700 feet long, and mount 12 16-inch guns. But the treaty—deadly as a swarm of enemy projectiles—killed all of them, and they were canceled while under construction.
In the mid-1930s, with the world situation heating up and Japan no longer willing to be bound by the treaty restrictions, the naval powers once again resumed battleship building. In the case of the U.S. Navy, this meant the inauguration of a new type: the fast battleship-capable of 27 knots rather than the 21-knot maximum speed that been standard up to then. And the gunnery format became nine 16-inch and 20 5-inch guns for each ship. The North Carolina (BB-55) class hit the fleet in 1941, and the South Dakota (BB-57) class in 1942.
The final U.S. battleships built were the four members of the Iowa (BB-61) class, commissioned in 1943-44. These ships have been widely admired for decades as the acme in their type. They had the same gun battery as their fast-battleship predecessors but added extra shaft horsepower and length to provide a top speed of 33 knots. They came in at a whopping 887 feet, and when they were new, each ship had more than 120 antiaircraft guns. That armament, along with their speed, made them ideal for protecting aircraft carrier task groups of World War II, but the battleships had very little opportunity to use their 16-inch guns for their intended purpose—firing at enemy warships.
For those who dabble in fantasy war games, there are wistful thoughts of what might have been but wasn't: the Montana (BB-67) class. Five ships were planned, and they were to be the ultimate superlatives in U.S. battleships: approximately 70,000 tons at full load (more than six times that of the 1895 Indiana), 921 feet long, and armed with 12 16-inch guns-two triple turrets forward and two aft. By 1943, the experience of combat in World War II dictated that the nation's shipbuilding resources were more needed elsewhere. The United States already had ten fast battleships either in service or nearing completion. The Montana class never got beyond the drawing boards and the imaginations of those who sought to build really huge battleships for the Navy.
The battleship era in the U.S. Navy began when the keel for the Indiana was laid on 7 May 1891. It officially ended just over 100 years later, on 31 March 1992, with the decommissioning of the Missouri (BB-63). The memories remain.
— Paul Stillwell
For a few years after the war ended in 1953, the four ships of the class remained in commission, serving primarily as training ships for midshipmen and Naval Reservists. Typically, they made summer cruises to European ports, an experience that was broadening for both the midshipmen and members of the ships' crews. One notable mishap during the period came on 6 May 1956, when the Wisconsin was operating with a group of ships off the coast of Virginia. She collided with the destroyer Eaton (DD-510), and the result was heavy damage to the bow of the battleship, which looked as if it had a big bite taken out of it. The remedy was akin to an organ transplant. The bow from the never-completed sister ship Kentucky (BB-66) was grafted onto the front of the Wisconsin and remains there to this day. The Wisconsin is now a tourist attraction at Nauticus, the National Maritime Center, in Norfolk, Virginia.
When the Wisconsin was decommissioned and put into mothballs in early 1958, the U.S. Navy was without any active battleships for the first time since 1895. With missile-firing ships joining the fleet in increasing numbers, the battleship era was presumedly over. But then the Vietnam War made its imprint on the armed services and the nation as a whole. As a way to cut down on the number of airplanes being shot down over North Vietnam, the Defense Department directed the reactivation of the New Jersey. Unlike airplanes, her 16-inch projectiles—once they were on their way toward targets more than 20 miles distant—could not be shot down.
The greatest satisfaction for her crew came in providing fire support to American troops ashore. Often the big guns fired at long range, and the men on board learned of the results of their shooting only from reports from airborne spotters. Occasionally, though, the ship had short-range direct-fire missions. One mission in particular impressed Ensign Scott Cheyne. He watched the trajectory of the projectiles during their entire path from the guns to an enemy hillside and saw the shock waves as the shells exploded and then rippled through surrounding trees. Several more seconds elapsed, because light travels faster than sound, and then he heard the noises made by the projectiles when they exploded ashore.
As it happened, the New Jersey made only one deployment to Vietnam. The American public had turned against the overseas conflict, and Congress responded by cutting its monetary support. The battleship returned to the mothball fleet in December 1969.
Final Call-Up
A dozen years later, the process was reversed as the Reagan administration dramatically increased defense expenditures. Included in the program was reactivation, one at a time, of the four Iowa-class ships.
In May 1986 the Navy recommissioned the "Mighty Mo" in a gala ceremony in San Francisco. During his speech at the event, Captain Lee Kaiss said, "On October 27, 1945, when President Harry S. Truman stepped aboard USS Missouri, he said, 'This is the happiest day of my life.' Ladies and gentleman, I know exactly how he felt."
That night, in a dinner in San Francisco's city hall, President Truman's daughter, Margaret Truman Daniel, addressed the crew. She had a special tie to the warship because she had done the christening honors at the launching in 1944. In concluding, she said: "Captain Kaiss and the men of the Missouri, there's one other thing I want to say to you. Please take care of my baby." The brash battleship Sailors melted on the spot and gave her a standing ovation.
The firepower the battleships added to the fleet was interrupted by a controversial event. On 19 April 1989, while the Iowa was involved in a gunnery exercise in the Caribbean, powder charges in her number two turret exploded. The disaster killed 47 crew members. The four battleships were prohibited for a time from shooting their 16-inch guns until the cause could be found. The initial investigation report determined that an Iowa gunner's mate deliberately caused the explosion. Subsequent tests ascertained that the explosion could have been the result of mechanical problems involving the powder bags and the mechanism that rammed them into the breech of the gun. Once corrective measures were taken, the firing ban was lifted.
All four ships of the class operated into the early 1990s. The Wisconsin and Missouri provided missile and gunfire support during the 1991 Gulf War. The battle was not completely one-sided. One night the Iraqis fired a Silkworm missile toward the Missouri. The skipper, Lee Kaiss, ordered his men to hit the deck. Ship's Serviceman Gregory Green was apprehensive, and thoughts jumbled in his mind. He thought about the possibility of the Missouri being hit, having to abandon ship, being captured, and wondering what the Iraqis might feed prisoners of war. All the fears proved groundless as the British destroyer Gloucester shot down the Silkworm before it could do any harm. Soon the war was over, and the battleships headed back to the States and the end of their active service lives.
In early December 1991, just a few months before she would be decommissioned for the last time, the Missouri made a final voyage. She steamed to Pearl Harbor to take part in the observances of the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack. On board was Yeoman John Lewis, who had been in the ship's recommissioning crew in 1986 and was back again for old times' sake. He explained his reasoning for making this last trip: "There are only two kinds of sailors in the Navy: those who have been on a battleship and those who wish they could."
Mr. Stillwell is a contributing editor to Naval History, as well as the magazine's founding editor. His many books include Battleship New Jersey: An Illustrated History (1987), Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History (1991), and Battleship Missouri: An Illustrated History (1995), all published by the Naval Institute Press. He has drawn on those books and his 2001 volume Battleships, published by MetroBooks, in compiling this article. For the most part his sources have been personal recollections, some of them in oral histories and published memoirs and many in interviews Mr. Stillwell has conducted.


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Marc Maron: From Suicidal to Sitcom Gold
In the same Los Angeles garage where he not long ago considered killing himself, comedian Marc Maron built the podcast that saved his career. Don Steinberg reports. Photo: IFC.
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I actually thought I was being hilarious, with that last entry. I thought that was a return to form. Hilarity was mine again! I'm back, baby! So imagine my surprise when the comments were in the "oh, honey" and "I am inappropriately hugging you in my mind" vein. I then read the post again, and, huh, well, yeah. I guess all that talk of doldrums and not being able to dress myself appropriately said more than I meant it to. Now I feel a little silly. Silly, and odd.
To those of you who are worried that I need to seek professional help, please be assured that I have an entire army of professional helpers at my beck and call. I seek the counsel of mental health-keepers more than I talk to my friends these days. And oh, I wish I were exaggerating.
I went to see one of them today, one of those medication-prescribing types, who declared that I am more depressed than I think I am, and menacingly waved her prescription pad at me. She, like the Internet, refused to be dazzled by my hot jokes and my jazz hands. Instead she wanted to know if I've been sleeping and eating, or just entertaining thoughts of suicide. Oh, therapist! Who has the energy for suicide? All I ask is to sleep for six months or twelve years or so. Is that so crazy?
I actually don't think I'm doing all that badly, for the most part, except when I'm doing so badly I can barely breathe. I can engage in chit-chat, and play with Henry. I can go to the store, and do store things! I go about my day and no one is the wiser. There's just this niggling pain roaming about my insides, is all, and at intervals that pain will reach an intolerable level, whereupon I retreat to the bathroom and cry for a little while, or else a long while. But usually the former. These crying retreats have become less frequent, so that's encouraging. Right?
Meanwhile, my professional helpers are telling me that my grief is "normal" but also that I'm depressed. I can't quite wrap my mind around this, because as we know depression is abnormal, and if this is normal, than it can't be depression. That's logic! Then again, I seem to be unable to think clearly, so maybe there's something I'm not getting or something they said that I forgot to listen to. Next time I should take notes. Or bring a translator. Or just stay home and mail them checks.
I don't think I'm depressed as much as I am emotionally unmoored. Is there a prescription to help that? I don't know what to do, or what I'm supposed to feel, or how I'm supposed to… hmm. I can't remember how I was going to finish that sentence. I'm a solution-minded kind of person, ready to read the book or take the course or do the work that will make things better, and there's no solution for this. And I'm more than a little dissatisfied with this state of affairs.


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As mentioned in a recent Top 10 Comments, the author of these lines spent a few cold but memorable days in Denmark's historic capital. Despite the Nordic country's relatively small size, Denmark is home to some of the world's most beautiful women who for no palpable reason know languages from countries half a world away and whose equally handsome men wear prescription eyeglasses made from the same materials used to send people to space.
Underneath Copenhagen's quiet, unassuming way of life, however, lies a dynamic street fashion scene that goes hand in hand with the city around it and the world at large. During the warmer months locals can be seen skating, biking, swimming in the harbor, tagging, busking, and partying until the sun comes out – all of the ingredients necessary in creating a unique street culture. As a testament to this, the past couple of years have seen a handful of Danish brands explode on to the European market while some have even managed to sneak their way on to the US's often insular streets. One of these brands is the young but upcoming Libertine-Libertine.
Situated in Copenhagen's hip Vesterbro district, the company's headquarters lie in a former pâté factory that still houses some of the city's sausage stands, or Pølsevogne, which head out on to the local streets every morning to feed hungry passersby. Most of the building, however, has been converted into spacious, unadorned lofts that are now occupied by young creatives like Libertine-Libertine. Comprised primarily of trio Rasmus Bak, Pernille Schwarz, and Peter Munch Ovesen, the brand has seen both its collections and fan base grow steadily since its humble beginnings in 2009. What once consisted solely of a handful of shirts, now consists of a full women's line in addition to their popular men's line. Of course this growth didn't come over night, unless you consider being on the road promoting the brand nonstop for the past 4 years over night.
Right from the start the brand's CEO, Rasmus, makes it clear that they are content with where they are and where they want to go, chalking this up to the brand's desire to stay true to their own personal beliefs and aesthetics which I later discovered range from existentialism and punk rock to Keith Haring and wildlife. At first, this vast range of interests seemed excessive – especially at a time where many labels brand themselves around one particular interest or lifestyle – but the more I studied the latest collection, the more it began to fall in to place. As a whole, the collection is distinctly streetwear, but taken individually, each piece works seamlessly in almost any context.
Retailers have caught on to this paradox, too. Upscale stores like London's Goodhood and Copenhagen's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art stock the brand's simple yet unique Oxfords alongside high-fashion brands like Kenzo and Carven, while Berlin's SOTO and Boston's Bodega pair the brand's characteristic prints alongside streetwear brands like Norse Projects and NSW. We ruminate on this contradiction for a while before the conversation gradually turns to our other interests and hobbies. As we do, the label seems to become less of a clothing brand and more of a creative outlet for the trio akin to music or art that allows them to exercise their love of product design and quality while opening the door to many creative side projects as a natural addition to the brand.
All of this is done without the least bit of pretension. Quite the opposite in fact. Take their collaboration with Ugelris Wineyard for instance which involved drinking excessive amounts of alcohol and jumping repeatedly over a blazing bonfire resulting in a stylish and limited bottle of grappa. Or the years spent on the road drumming for a punk band up and down the US and Europe before settling down and working for Sweden's Acne.
Somehow, these wildly disconnected stories make sense and fit into the label's steadfast determination not to be pigeonholed. Even their logo, that unwavering symbol instrumental to a brand's image, has been known to change from season to season. Why? Because fuck it that's why. That attitude – not just as philosophy, but as aesthetic – has given them the unique ability to move through these different worlds with ease. Suddenly, our lively conversations, which range from things like travel schedules to the following night's Iceage concert, come full circle. And before you know it we're back to their signature trousers featuring elastic drawstrings around the leg openings carefully designed to make sneakers pop – the perfect complement to Copenhagen's unrivaled, borderline obsessive sneaker culture.
After taking one last look at the upcoming Fall/Winter 2013 collection, Rasmus leads me to the building just in front of theirs housing a dimly lit bar. Amidst the soft glow of the street beyond, he explains how the bar once acted as a tavern for the district's famed meat packing industry. For many years it was run by an old woman who would faithfully come in early every morning and close up shop once the last of the men had gone home. After she passed away, the bar was gently modified with respect to the past and now lies in the care of Rasmus and his fellow coworkers. Unlike most bars in the area though, theirs doesn't serve any singular purpose. Instead, the trio use it to kick back with friends after a long day or to have a few drinks before hopping over to the city's more alternative clubs just across the street – another fitting chapter in the peculiar world of Libertine-Libertine.
In a strange way though, the bar feels just as integral to the brand as the actual clothing. This abstract merger of genres and aesthetics seems to align perfectly with their belief of replacing the stereotypical with the complex – an idea which may now seem foreign and convoluted but which in the future may very well be the obvious.
So what's next for the Danish brand? Rasmus floats the idea of opening a flagship store not far from their offices before quickly adding an open-ended "who knows?" Like every little step in the brand's 4 years of existence, patience and timing is key. One thing's for certain though: Libertine-Libertine and its fans have plenty to look forward to in the coming years.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
My dinner with Andre
Dinner was at Vin Rouge in Durham and Matt provided excellent food as always and Michael was spot on with wine service, again, per usual.
2007 Domaine du Bagnol Cassis
Clearly past it's drinking window. These need to be drunk fresh. The rosé is also much, much better. This is one of those pleasures that should probably stay in France.
2005 Domaine Ganevat Savagnin Côtes du Jura Sous la Roche La Combe de Rotalier
I liked the 2002 of this a great deal and was eager to try this version. Didn't seem to have the same tension as the 2002, but had good weight and length and that intensity I like from good sous voile wines. For my personal tastes, Ganevat is clearly at the top of Savagnin producers. I still have no idea how this will age. I know it will hold, but how will it really change? Will it be glacial? I suspect. I've never cellared these wines, I tend to buy them and drink them. I'd love to hear from anyone who cellars these.
2008 Ganevat Côtes du Jura Pinot Noir Cuvée Julien
I don't get the hype. I guess it's a nice wine, but would be crushed by Barthod or Mugneret Bourgogne.
2005 Pépière (Marc Ollivier) Clos des Briords 1.5L
This was a great showing by this wine. Maybe it will come together. I was worried that the vintage was too fat and would never shed that baby fat to become what we recognize as Briords. Contrary to that fear, if this magnum was a leading indicator, it seems to be doing just that. Becoming more focused and mineral, it also seems to have absorbed some of the fat and turned it into some yellow fruits. This will always be on the bigger side and won't be confused with 2002 or 1996, but it could end up being more interesting in the medium term than I suspected. I have a 750 at the house waiting to drink and will see if this is a one off phenomenon or a portent.
2005 Château du Cayrou Cahors
Even though this is young, I liked it a lot. I have a soft spot for both this and the Gamot and I don't know why. There is a kind of regal quality to their rusticity, sort of like a country gentleman, and a real sense of density and place. I am not sure what the signature terroir of Cahors is, but tis is the type of wine I think of. Dark and almost black purple, sauvage aromas of black and blue fruits enveloped in leather, tree bark and 14 hour hung game (top that Schildy). There is also a nice minerality underneath everything else. I should own some of this. Was not wildly tannic, perhaps due to the merlot in the blend, but drank well the following day.
1996 Vietti Barolo Brunate
Astoundingly disappointing bottle. Decanted for several hours, this never really opened up. Seemed a bit dilute, which do0esn't make any sense given how it showed as a young wine and where it should be. Maybe it's in a dumb phase, I don't really know.
4 comments:
- TWG said...
You're a posting madman. Hopefully you're going to NYC to report on the industry tastings.
- September 13, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Cliff said...
2002 Puffeney, tasted earlier this year, had really mellowed and stretched out from release. I still have one or two bottles of the 1993 but haven't had one for years. 1987 Camille Roye Arbois Cuvée Saint Paul was a revelation three years ago. I couldn't have pegged it as Chardonnay, but it was beautiful and could only have come from the Jura.
- September 13, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- the vlm said...
I promised to get the blog going again, promises are promises. Not sure the next set of tastings I'll come up for. Might just have to come up for pure fun.
Did you get the sense that it was evolving or just pressing on?
- September 14, 2010 at 6:37 AM
- Cliff said...
Puffeney is the only one I've had on release and then with a little age. It definitely did more than hold -- it became more interesting.
- September 16, 2010 at 4:23 PM


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Berry Oreo Cookies
These cookies are inspired by my husband's favorite ice cream flavor. Any one ever been to Graeter's Ice Cream? They have a strawberry chocolate chip right now, it's pretty fantastic.
I bought the Berry Burst Ice Cream Oreo cookies for the first time this week. Why didn't anyone tell me how good they are??? I tell ya, I am always the last in the loop.
Anyways, these cookies are so easy. I use a box of strawberry cake mix as the batter. I KNOW! I then added my crushed oreos, I mean mixed them in good, but if you're not in a hurry and you're not distracted by a mountain of post-vacation laundry, then you can turn your mixer off and fold in the Oreos. I imagine your cookies would be a bit more pink (mine were quite purple). Enjoy!
Berry Oreo Cookies
- 1 box (18.25oz) strawberry cake mix
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbsp water
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 14 Berry Burst Ice Cream Oreos, chopped (or use regular Oreo cookies)
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate morsels
In mixer, blend the cake mix with the egg, melted butter and water. Fold in Oreo cookies and chocolate morsels.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Drop by large tablespoon onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Bake for about 12 minutes. Remove and cool on pan 2 minutes. Transfer to wire rack and cool completely.
Store in covered container. Enjoy!
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March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and you are empowered to reduce the risks of getting colorectal cancer, commonly called colon cancer.
- Eat a low-fat diet.
- Exercise regularly.
- Maintain a healthy body weight.
"Excessive alcohol has also been associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer," says Song Kang, a radiation oncologist with Virginia Oncology Associates. "In addition, these lifestyle changes have benefits in reducing the risk of other cancers and chronic diseases."
It's also important to maintain screening tests such as digital rectal exams, tests for blood in the stool and colonoscopies; if colorectal cancer does develop, it can be found in the earliest stages possible, maximizing the chance for cure.
Colorectal cancer signs and symptoms include abdominal pain, bleeding, change in bowel habits, weakness or other manifestations of anemia -- and sometimes weight loss. Screening tests such as colonoscopy (a fiber optic viewing tube), testing for occult blood or barium enema can lead to a diagnosis before symptoms and can improve survival by finding disease at an earlier stage.
Diagnosis is made usually at the time of a colonoscopy. This procedure allows a biopsy, or removal of a small piece of the tumor, which is needed to make a diagnosis. After diagnosis, there's a CT scan or less commonly used PET scanning to estimate the extent of disease. More is known when the surgeon removes regional nodes and a pathologist examines them microscopically.
Treatment is usually surgery. For early stage colorectal cancers, surgery may be all that's necessary. Several improvements in surgery have occurred recently. The use of laparoscopic techniques leads to more rapid recovery; stapling devices allow resection of an increased number of low rectal tumors without the need for a colostomy. Characteristics of the cancer and location sometimes require complete removal of the rectum and a colostomy as the best option for cure and good patient hygiene.For colon cancer, chemotherapy is often recommended after surgery, depending on the extent of disease and lymph nodes involved. Radiation therapy is typically not used in the treatment of colon cancer unless it is very advanced locally, or if the cancer could not be completely removed by surgery.
When rectal cancer is advanced, the treatment strategy usually employs a combination of radiation and chemotherapy prior to surgical removal, followed by several months of additional chemotherapy. While chemotherapy travels throughout the body, the radiation is very focused on the region of the tumor and the lymph nodes in the pelvis. This allows concentrated treatment to the area to maximize shrinkage of the tumor, and to kill cancer cells in the lymph nodes at highest risk for spread. Shrinking the tumor with radiation prior to surgery allows the tumor to be removed optimally. The radiation and chemotherapy are sometimes given after surgery if the lymph nodes are found to be involved with cancer or the tumor is more extensive than initially thought. The goal of radiation after surgery is to sterilize any remaining cancer cells in the tumor bed and/or in the lymph nodes. Radiation treatments involve daily treatments that last approximately 10-15 minutes, for about five and a half weeks. Radiation is an X-ray treatment, so the patient does not feel anything during the actual treatments.
When colon cancer spreads, chemotherapy is used to shrink the cancers throughout the body, and focused patches of radiation are used for localized problems caused by the tumors. Newer techniques of radiation can now be used to treat CRC that has spread to the liver. These may involve highly focused beams of radiation, or injection of microscopic radiation spheres that target the liver.
In some low rectal cancers, the surgical treatment may require a colostomy bag in order to remove the entire tumor. A colostomy is a hole that is made in the abdomen for the stool to be collected into a bag if the anus needs to be surgically closed. Despite the initial impressions, most patients with colostomy bags do extremely well and are able to carry on with an excellent quality of life.
Survival rates continue to improve, in all stages compared with even a few years ago. Reasons for this improvement include better surgical technique and more effective post-operative chemotherapy. For early-stage cancer, cure rates are in excess of 90 percent; for those with regional lymph node involvement, survival exceeds 70 percent at five years.
Even in metastatic disease, the median survival rate (the time point when half of the original study group is still alive), has increased from six months to two years, a four-fold increase, which is impressive.
Newer agents, such as the blood vessel formation inhibitor, Avastin, aid traditional chemotherapies. More studies on individual tumor characteristics, such as gene mutations, help targeted therapy fight the cancer.
Genetic counseling is offered for people at an increased risk for hereditary color cancer syndrome. The personal and family history is evaluated in detail, and recommendations are made regarding genetic testing.
The incidence starts to rise significantly after age 40 to 50; about 90 percent are diagnosed after age 50, hence the recommendation to start surveillance colonoscopy.
Most patients do not have a positive family history or genetic predisposition. Risk increases 5 to 15 fold by inflammatory bowel disease such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
Other less well- proven risk factors are alcohol intake, cigarette smoking, diabetes and insulin resistance, obesity and red meat consumption.
Some protective factors include exercise and increased activity levels, increased intake of dietary fiber, folic acid, and intake of aspirin or other anti-inflammatory agents. Exercise also appears to greatly reduce recurrence risk in patients treated for the disease.
If you worry about family history, talk to your healthcare provider about a referral for genetic counseling.
Sources: Medical oncologist John Kessler, radiation oncologist Song Kang and cancer genetic counselor Tifany Lewis, all with Virginia Oncology Associates


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Electromyography (EMG) measures and records the electrical activity of a muscle. The test can record a muscle's electrical activity at rest or during a muscle contraction.
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nerve conduction studies. These studies can analyze the electrical activity in your nerves.
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A small needle electrode will be inserted into a muscle at rest. You will be asked to rest or contract the muscle. The electrical activity picked up by the needle will produce a waveform. The waveform will be recorded and analyzed. The test is repeated on different muscles and limbs.
You will be able to leave after the test is done. When you are home:
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You may have some pain when the needle electrodes are inserted. The insertion feels like an injection into the muscle.
After the test, you may have muscle aches and discomfort for several days. Warm compresses and pain medication may help.
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Justin Reiter Makes Olympic Team
Justin Reiter discovered Tuesday morning at 10:30 that living out of his truck for the summer had been worth it.
He sat in his favorite coffee shop in Steamboat Springs, CO, working on thank you notes and eating a breakfast burrito.
Still not certain of his athletic future, he was struggling to thank his supporters. So Reiter decided to put his fate in his own hands. He emailed a U.S. Snowboarding staff member, begging to at least know when a decision would be made. Within minutes, he received a call.
"She told me they wanted to construct the best team they possibly could for the Olympics—then she paused for a long time. I was sure I didn't make it. But she finished with 'you're a part of that team'," Reiter said.
This is Reiter's third attempt at making the Olympic team. At 32, the parallel slalom snowboarder says he is about to live his 20-year-old dream.
After missing the mark by one spot in the 2006 Olympics, injuring his knee cap before the 2010 Olympics and retiring from the sport for two years, Reiter came back in 2013 because of unfinished business with snowboarding.
"It was the perfect catalyst for me to return," Reiter said. "I took a different approach. Said [I was] not doing this for results—I'm doing this because I love to do it. That's what it's about. And since that time, that's been my main focus."
And he sure has taken a different approach. He did not miss a day of training, even in the five-month off-season. In order to save money, he opted to live out of his truck this summer in Park City, UT.
As he continues to pursue the Olympics, Reiter says he has a whole new mindset.
"There's so much pressure about going to the Olympics," Reiter said. He attributed his competition losses to that pressure.
"Now I'm really excited to have the opportunity just to enjoy the ride," Reiter said. "It's been a long time coming. But that's kind of how everything in my life has been. It's always been kind of a drive. It's never been easy."
Reiter will be the only American competing in the alpine snowboarding event, airing Feb. 23 on NBC at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
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Dealing with outright disobedience is the parenting job we dread most. In part because most of us have no idea how to handle it, but also because decades of advice from parenting experts have both confused us and left us scared that we'll somehow compromise our darlings' burgeoning self-esteem if we react in the wrong way.
But take heart. The fact is, dealing swiftly with a child's misbehavior—and doing so consistently—matters more than the details of your response.
Below, eight proven ways to deal with high-test naughtiness. What works one day in one situation might not work the next when the stakes and setting are different, so it pays to be flexible. Just make sure, however you manifest your intolerance, that your child knows quickly and for certain that defiance won't be tolerated. A one-size-doesn't-fit-all guide to solutions:
Remove her
This is the gold standard of defiance busting. When the going gets out of control, simply swoop in and physically leave the store, take her out of the sandbox, end the playdate, and head home. In order for this to work, there must be no hesitation on your part. "Don't do any cajoling, begging or convincing," says Valerie Hedrick, a Concord, California, mom of three. "Pick her up and leave. Your child's banking on her outrageous behavior to score some points in the form of an emotional reaction from you. If there isn't one, then she gets no payoff." Just say in very clear language why you're taking action ("You didn't stop throwing sand when I told you to, so now I'm taking you out of the sandbox.") This is bottom-line, no-nonsense discipline and it makes the most sense when used with obviously egregious behaviors.
"Of course your child won't take you seriously if you just threaten and don't follow through," says Linda McGivern, a mom of three, in Rollinsford, New Hampshire. Once, when Abby, her oldest daughter, was 4, she had a fit in a store because she couldn't have the toy she wanted. "I told her to stop and that we would leave if she didn't stop," she said. "She didn't quit her crying, so I put away the items I wanted to buy and left the store with her screaming under my arm. When we got home, she had a nice, age-appropriate time-out and that behavior never happened again."
Keeping your cool is as important as consistency. "March out calmly, with an air of command," says Jennifer Ingle, a mom of two, in Conover, North Carolina. "This lets spectators know you have the situation in hand. It's much better than sputtering apologies." This attitude isn't lost on the child, who's also noting that you're the one in control. Removing her from any "audience" may quell further defiance as well.
Create consequences
When the misbehavior isn't so site-specific, or when you can't just leave, or you're at home, you've got to find a threat that matters to your child. And as his or her mom, you're uniquely qualified to find her Achilles' heel. After all, one child's time-out is another child's excuse to daydream. When Ingle's 5-year-old daughter, Sarah, hit her, part of her punishment was to help write, then sign, an odious list of punishments, to be used for only the most outrageous behavior, such as hitting or lying. It included first a spanking, then no TV for the day (forcing Sarah to miss Animal Planet!) and finally, horribly, she'd have to call her dad at work and tell him how she'd been misbehaving. "She's never gone past number two," says her mom.
Removal of a privilege also fits in this category. When Dawn Blanchfield's son Kyle won't put his shoes on for school in the morning, he loses his video-game privileges that afternoon. "He ties his shoes real fast so he can redeem himself," laughs the Sacramento, California, mom.
Consequences that are directly tied to the misbehavior in question are the best. When her two boys won't get into bed, Cathy O'Brien of Durham, New Hampshire, doesn't move bedtime. She calmly tells them, "The longer you delay, the fewer stories I have time to read to you." This usually works, she says.
Expand the consequences
The lesson that you don't forget bad behavior can pack a wallop. And having a way to punish that behavior without raining on a larger group's parade can come in handy. A mom of eight in Alaska has lots of experience with discipline, but sometimes even she has to get creative. Once, when her son was acting up at a party, she told him he'd have to miss the next party he was invited to. But first she took a photo of him in mid-naughtiness. Then, two weeks later when he was asked to another party, she brought out the picture and reminded him of why he couldn't go. This made it immediate to a child who might otherwise have relegated the episode to long-ago history. At the next birthday party he attended, he was on his best behavior. "These things happen," she says, "but mostly it happens only once or twice per child because I make sure—and they know—that they'll face the consequences later."
Mary Rees, a mom of two in Albany, California, tried several tactics before she hit on the one that got the desired reaction when her 5-year-old, Joey, used to refuse to leave the park. "I told him that next time we came to the park, we'd have to leave fifteen minutes earlier than normal because he hadn't listened to me when I said it was time to go," she says.
If he did as he was told next time, she told him, the park date after that would last the full hour. That may seem complicated, but Rees enlisted the help of other moms she knew in the park to hammer this idea home. The next park playdate, one of these moms told Joey, "It's sad you have to leave so early today, Joey, but we hope you can stay longer next week."
Rees thinks the reactions and reinforcement that Joey got from the other moms were the key to the technique's success. "The issue became less of a power struggle between parent and child and more of a community ethos, a 'this is what we do' message."
Currently in vogue is the notion of letting the child know that you understand how he feels. "I know how frustrated you are. I wish we could stay at the park all day, too, but, " This works for some kids, but less well for others. "Empathy worked with my oldest son, Nick—that was all it took to restore him to sanity," says Mollie Hart, a mom of two boys, in Berkeley, California. "But George, who's 5, is a different animal. So I combine empathy with action. I scoop him up and walk out, and he's flailing around, but I try to keep my cool and keep talking to him: 'Oh, I know you had a good time, and wouldn't it be great if we could just stay all day,' and so on. Believe it or not, it does work—it calms him down, and he seems to absorb the message."
Empathy is a good choice when you suspect something besides outright defiance is causing the problem. Once, my daughter Annie had the mother of all meltdowns in a store because she wanted stickers I wouldn't buy her. I was about to pick her up and carry her to the car when I realized: She hadn't eaten lunch yet, and there was a brand-new baby brother at home getting all the attention. I took a deep breath and let go of the stickers. I said kindly, "You must be starving. I get really mad when I'm hungry, too. Let's go get a hamburger. And then we'll go home and you can show me your sticker book, because I think you have some of these stickers in there already. Can you show me?" She calmed down, I lured her outside, got some food into her, and gave her some much-needed extra mom attention.
Count down
"I want you in here by the time I count to five!" This tells your child that you're done asking and her time is nigh. This can be a very effective method of getting her to come or stop what she's doing, as long as you're prepared to follow through (and have done so in the past). It's when you reach the magic number and then continue to plead that this ceases to be effective. That battle has been lost. If you don't want to lose it, you've got to show your kids you mean business, every time.
"My kids know that if I get to three, I will do something that has an immediate and undesirable effect on them," says Christina Bess, a mom of two, in Maplewood, New Jersey, who adds that at various times she's picked up her screaming charges and carried them to the car or put them into bed fully clothed. "At this point, I rarely have to say anything more than 'Stop that...ONE..."
Some parents swear by counting backward, because zero is much more final than five, which is just so tempting to stretch to siiiiiixxxxx or even sevvvvvvvennnn.
Laugh it off
Often a toddler can simply be distracted from bad behavior. Jennifer Ingle has a "Manners" poem she gets her two kids singing if they start acting up at a restaurant: Matthew, Matthew, strong and able/Get your foot off the table/This is not a horse's stable/But a first-rate dining table. "The poem turns it into a silly situation," she says, "which is much easier to defuse."
Plain old distraction can work, too. "The only way I can get my three-year-old into the car for preschool every morning is if I make it a big excursion to go see the garbage trucks," says Rae Sullivan of Durham, North Carolina. "He's obsessed with garbage trucks, so as long as that's where we're going, it works."
Make a deal
When power struggles with my daughter Annie started when she was around 3, I decided to cut a deal. I agreed to keep the hall light on so she could sit in bed and look at a book as long as she promised to stay there and "rest." She won a little, and I won a little. And she'd fall asleep within 20 minutes every time.
Another name for deal-making? Bribery. It's frowned upon by some, and you'd be wise to use it sparingly and only for annoying (but predictable) behavior, rather than out-and-out misbehavior. But it can stop a brewing storm in its tracks. Georgia McNamara of San Francisco recently had trouble getting her 5-year-old son to listen to her and get ready to leave a store. Tensions were starting to mount when she suddenly remembered she had something in her pocket that was bound to interest him. "I flashed him the M&M's in my pocket, and he was holding my hand and heading out the door in a flash," she says.
Do nothing
Unfortunately, as every parent knows, hunger and exhaustion (or, worse, both) can render your child immune to any discipline technique you have. What do you do then?
Sometimes, not a thing. Jennifer Greenberg of Portland, Oregon, was stuck in traffic with her newborn and preschooler when 3 ½-year-old Solomon demanded a lollipop to top off his snow cone. He hadn't slept well the night before and it was a sweltering 100-degree day, so when Mom said no way, it sent him over the edge. She considered every one of the above-mentioned discipline tricks, then realized the best she could do was stay calm and get everyone home safely. "It wasn't like I could pull over in traffic and give him a time-out."
Finally home, she carried her thrashing, shrieking child into the house under her arm and plopped him in the time-out chair. When she returned to him a few moments later, her little monster had fallen sound asleep where he sat, slumped in the chair. Sometimes, it seems, kids deal with their defiance all by themselves.
Julie Tilsner's most recent book, Mommy Yoga, came out in October 2005.


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My youngest daughter, a high school sophomore, competed this weekend in the Minnesota state high school dance tournament at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The public high school that my kids have all attended is a dance powerhouse, and Minnesota is–who knew?–a hotbed of competitive dance. There are two categories, jazz and kick, and my daughter competed on her high school's kick team in the tournament. Where, happily, they won the state championship for the third year in a row.
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The dance team stayed at the Graves 601 Hotel, right across the street from the Target Center, and my wife and I stayed there Friday night, too. The hotel is owned by Jim Graves, a rich liberal who ran against Michele Bachmann in November and lost, rather narrowly. That didn't stop us from contributing a little to Graves's coffers in the hotel's Cosmos bar, along with a number of other dance team parents, Friday night.
As to where my daughter got her athletic talent, there is no mystery: I was well known, in my youth, as a dancing fool.