National security served up by a dry drunk

I grew up with a raving alcoholic.To call his behavior erratic is to engage in understatement for dramatic effect.

My dad was in the Navy, assigned to one of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet in Oahu Hawaii, which meant long periods of welcomed absence. But whenever the submarine was docked, he was home, where he vacillated between two states of drunk: wet drunk and dry.

If given a choice between the two, I’d have chosen wet.

Dry drunk behavior is universal

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