So, since my posting in March 2003 there has been nobody else named Ruben James or Reuben James visiting this site - maybe the rest of us are internet (or Google) illiterate.

In any case, as a matter of curiosity, although I spent 7 1/2 years in the U. S. Navy in the 1960s, I never discovered there was a ship of the same name until the 1980s when a relative sent me a newspaper article with a picture of the ?new? destroyer just commissioned with the name.