Interviewer: For people who've never served on a ship like myself,it's sometimes hard know, you know, what life on board the Cassin Young was like, in terms of experience;how crowded it was, how many crew members there were, that kind of thing.Discipline, food. If you have some memories about it, we'd like to hear them.Marra: As far as the food, I can't say it was bad. It was good.Except a few times we had water hours. They couldn't make too much fresh water, because the boilers were leaking, and they were making boiler water,and we wound up with sandwiches and stuff like that.Now, whatever showers they did have at the time, was salt water showers, which were murder.They'd wash your clothes in salt water, and that was bad.Interviewer: When you were talking about the showers, do you mean there were never any fresh water showers?Marra: No, just certain times. Mostly when we were steaming, like we were out for quite a long time,we couldn't get to a port where we could get fresh water.We used to distill our own fresh water, and we were using more boiler water than they could distill.They wouldn't run out; they would start rationing it, like knocking showers off and just giving you a, a sinkful to wash up in...When it rained, we would go topside with soap, and shower on the deck......Discipline on the destroyer was very relaxed.You could wear dungarees all day. You only had to salute the officers on board once a day in the morning when we had quarters.Salute the Captain every time you saw him.But, compared to, you know, a cruiser or something like that, you had to be in your uniform during the day and everything had to be just so—we didn't.We were what they called the Tin-Can Navy, or Hooligan's Navy— we looked like a bunch of bums.But as far as the crew and everything, it was a good crew.And, I think we had either 170 or 200, you know, crewmen on board.and I knew them all by their first names, the majority of them—even the officers.And everyone got along pretty good...