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Bless us all! A little late, as I was actually working last week, and on a tight schedule. Special thanks to Herb and my father-in -law. He's only 12 years older than I. My younger woman is already aboard. LOL

I started school in 1944, and do remember Pearl Harbor; at leaast H.V. Kaltenborn's stentorian voice that Sunday. After all, I was almost four years old. During blackouts I lay under our dining room table while my parents talked, and drew fighter planes attacking Zeros. My mother painted the table, but not the bottom!

My f.i.l. graduated in 1944, and became an LST sailor at Okinawa. He visited Hiroshima, and never forgot it. He also met some former POWs that were practically worked to death. He will not eat rice to this day.

I joined the Navy in 1956, so missed Korea, being only 18 then. I danced around Nam, in the Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan. Later I was in Italy and Spain, having spent my first two years in Cuba, during the Revolution. Back then ,we thought Castro was on our side. I knew a few of the rebels. kindred souls, I guess.

To Mr. Fredrichs (sp?): Most folks went with the side where they lived. I can understand and respect your and Chase's sympathies, but my great grand dad died in the war, and his brothers were both captured. One wqas wounded twice, and spent a year at Camp Douglas, which gave him rheumatism.

The first Boring came from Ireland in the late 1600s. Our family scattered north and south. At last count there were 50 in the Union Army and 49 in the Confederate Army. As was said, we are all Americans. Stan

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If you like him give em Bourbon *NM*
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