OT- Shades of Preble's boys

Piracy on high seas thwarted by brave U.S. Navy vessel!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa....ap/index.html
"And as the brave Yankee sailors swung aboard the Moorish corsair's
dhow, cutlasses flashing, pistols in their belts, they shouted: 'Here's
for free trade and sailor's rights! Here's for Old Columbia and her
brave children! Have at them, lads!' The scourge of the Indian Ocean was
soon seized, and her imprisoned crew once again could breath freely the
air of Liberty!
'How can we thank you!' cried the dusky and tearful former captives as one.
'We ask no thanks, but merely access to any oil that you may have in
your nation, that we may free it as we have freed you!' said the bold
American captain...."
You know full well that this crew is never going to let anyone ever
forget that they seized a pirate ship on the high seas once. :-D

Pat