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	Senior became agitated. "Once in a while I come across a strange ship, not like a whale ship. It moves under the water and stays submerged for a long time. It has strange screws that make groaning noises. I have seen ships like this several times. It is rumored that they are destroyers, engaged in killing other ships. Some of them look like us, and some whales mistook them for our friends, went too close to them, and got killed."   Besides these ships, you can see many other kinds of ships lying on the sea floor. They are dead ships. It is said they are haunted. They are not a place to play inside ..."   Junior recalled that he had seen a war movie on television. The ship Senior had just talked about, he thought, was perhaps the submarine used to fight the war in the movie he saw. He did not understand wars anyway. It was cruel things in which innocent people and all creatures were killed in droves. In contrast, he thought, the whales were peace-loving creatures. They liked to sing and jump instead of fighting. The humans were strange animals, Junior said to himself.