Lt. Jim Bledsoe Quotes in Run Silent Run Deep (1958)

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Lt. Jim Bledsoe Quotes:

  • Lt. Jim Bledsoe: If you should fail, and somehow come out of this alive, there won't be a desk small enough for you this time.

    Commander Richardson: That's strange, Jim. I never even thought of failing.

  • Lt. Jim Bledsoe: It's one thing to drill a crew for fighting. But when you duck a Jap sub, they wonder why they should break their backs on drills when the captain has no stomach for attacking. What does he want? Obedience? Efficiency? Or the best drilled cowards in the Navy?

    Commander Richardson: [after a long pause] Mr. Bledsoe, tell them I'm doubling the drills, starting tomorrow.

    Lt. Jim Bledsoe: Yes sir.

    [He starts to leave]

    Lt. Jim Bledsoe: You might as well know, sir, I don't believe it.

    Commander Richardson: Believe what?

    Lt. Jim Bledsoe: That you ran away from that sub from cowardice.

  • [last lines]

    Lt. Jim Bledsoe: [presiding at a funeral on his submarine] It's thirty-eight days now since we left Pearl Harbor. I know how some of us felt then; I think I know how some of us feel now. But let no one here, no one aboard this boat, ever say we didn't have a captain.

    [as the body is buried at sea, he reads these remarks]

    Lt. Jim Bledsoe: Unto almighty God we commend the soul of our shipmate departed. And we commit his body to the deep, in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection unto eternal life, when the sea shall give up her dead in the life of the world to come.

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