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Hi, Marge. Lot of other related detail from those early days. As I recall, Bob DeLeo and Bill Wise, both then late-year high school juniors, also were snagged by the active Navy recruiter on the heels of World War II. I don’t know about Bill, who later drowned himself salmon fishing, but Bob and I went off to Seattle and made a training trip aboard sister destroyers, hitting Ketchikan on the Fourth of July 1947. In uniform, we sort of tore up both towns and involved the Shore Patrol. We did not see one another at sea. I don’t know to this day why we felt so macho we passed on traveling around the Pacific and to Hawaii aboard an aircraft carrier. I lost track of Bob over the intervening 74-plus years but he called me recently when he retired back to town. He seems to have held together better than I.

I guess I lived a full life in early years. My favorite job? Driving truck for the Post Engineer at Fort Worden.