The tail of Folly

The tail of Folly

A while back, I told you about my friend David Pingenot, who, in the late 1960s, left his small Iowa farm town seeking a wider view of the world by enlisting in the Navy. I talked to him again recently, and he laughed even before he started telling me this story. He told me, “This is one of the highlights of my Navy career.” When he was a junior enlisted sailor, he was stationed on Grand Turk Island, about 140 miles north of the Dominican Republ…