Story behind your V20 handle

[Destroyer]

There was another post where I said how my name came about, but I'll repeat it here for those that didn't see it.

When I got into CB's in the 70's I took my father's favorite beer as my handle, and I became Black Label (Carling's Black Label Beer) (People that knew me back then still call me that).

I love the ocean. She is my mistress. Been that way all my life, even as a kid. So it was only natural that when I became of age I'd join the Navy. My first two ships were Destroyers. They are the greyhounds of the sea... fast, powerful, dangerous. I fell in love with those ships. There is nothing else in the world like standing on the fantail (stern) of a destroyer going at flank speed, feeling thousands of horsepower vibrating through the metal deck up into your feet and through your whole body. You hear this overwhelming, all consuming rumble as the ships screws turn at an insane speed. Then you look back... and you see this beautiful, flat, white water wake, like a white arrow piercing the deep blue of the ocean, spread out behind you for what looks like forever as the water boils just behind the ship.

When BBS's and then the internet came along I changed from my CB name to my first love and became Destroyerman. Unfortunately there are too many letters in that name and a lot of the online games I played at the time would not let me use it. (Sorry, ten letters or less) So I shortened it to Destroyer... It stuck and here I am.