31.   A news report said an American sailor was being questioned in the case, and had denied any involvement.

32.   American sailor James Forten faced a horrible dilemma after his ship was defeated by a British frigate during the Revolutionary War.

33.   American sailors snapped to attention and saluted the president, who returned the gesture.

34.   Also Wednesday, the Navy said the bodies of two more American sailors were recovered from the Cole.

35.   American sailors held a memorial service Sunday for a fighter pilot killed when his jet collided with another over the Gulf and crashed in waters off Kuwait.

36.   AMERICAN sailors on Sunday pitched in to help clean up the Hong Chi Pinehill Village for mentally handicapped children in Tai Po, New Territories.

37.   American sailors scuttle the U.S. escort carrier Ommaney Bay off the Philippines after it sustains heavy damage in kamikaze attacks on ships massing for the Luzon invasion.

38.   An ill American sailor evacuated from a Volvo Ocean Race yacht at sea late Tuesday night was released from an Australian hospital Wednesday after making a rapid recovery.

39.   And it was a bunch of American sailors sitting around drinks in Newport who conceived of circumnavigating the globe solo in a yacht, birthing the annual BOC Challenge.

40.   An American sailor was found dead at a base camp in northern Bosnia Wednesday, the victim of an apparent suicide, the U.S. military reported Wednesday.