If they did schedule a cruise to the South Pacific, I'd look for stops at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, and I'm not an ex-Marine! Some of the toughest battles of WWII. I don't think you can go ashore at Tarawa, but a pass-by would be interesting. It's where the landing craft got caught on the reef, forcing the Marines to wade ashore into Jap machine gun fire. We lost a lot of good men there!

When Libya quiets down, I'd like to go back there, to see Leptis Magna, a Roman ruin better preserved than anything I've seen since. It's on the coast between Tripoli and Misurata (which is how they spelled Misrata when I was there in 1956-'57). Also, I'd like to visit Benghazi, where I spent the bulk of my 15 month Air Force Libya tour, to see how it’s changed and to try and find Berka 2, the WWII B-24 Liberator base turned radar site where I was stationed. No telling if the country will be calmed down and safe enough in 2014 though.