It is a powerful moment in the film. The movie made the term (concept) familiar to those outside the Navy. If you’re on a ship you don’t have a choice to go your own way. Being on a boat forces you to work as a team because you either all make it back to port or you all make it to the bottom of the ocean. Granted, only half the crew died. But the ones that died, died because of the failure of one man.
A movie in 1996? If it was on Kennedy’s sailboat it’s safe to say the movie writers didn’t invent the phrase, although perhaps that’s a movie Q has seen.
With the giant Q cemetery JFK makes more sense to me.
I believe that wwg1wga is a reference in the movie White Squall.
It is a powerful moment in the film. The movie made the term (concept) familiar to those outside the Navy. If you’re on a ship you don’t have a choice to go your own way. Being on a boat forces you to work as a team because you either all make it back to port or you all make it to the bottom of the ocean. Granted, only half the crew died. But the ones that died, died because of the failure of one man.
Both are true. There is a picture of a bell from JFKs boat that also says it. This was a big part of the JFK Jr confusion, if I remember right.
I'd like to see a picture of that bell - on the Honey Fitz or any other Kennedy boat. Perhaps it's out there - I haven't seen it.
I've seen a picture of the bell. I find it interesting they are presenting it as fact that it is from JFK's boat, as that was much debated by anons.
I thought a version of that saying was from the Musketeers book/tales. 1844. Pre-dates JFK.
You are thinking of “All for one and one for all”
A movie in 1996? If it was on Kennedy’s sailboat it’s safe to say the movie writers didn’t invent the phrase, although perhaps that’s a movie Q has seen.
With the giant Q cemetery JFK makes more sense to me.