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Interesting about the Master Diver. When I served in the Navy, I served on an ASR like your grandfather may have been on. The Falcon (ASR-2) was the submarine rescue vessel that worked the Squalus incident. I served on a different ASR, one of the class of ASRs built during WWII. I did the 800 foot plunge in a Diving Bell, in fact. ![]() |
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My dad never spoke about his time on Okinawa. It wasn't until just a few years before he died that he started talking about it and then, only in general terms. My wife's dad (who died before I met her) told her many stories and her mother, who's town was constantly bombed by the Soviets, has given a detailed history of that time. My daughter has recorded it. |
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When I was in the navy, I'd often go to the legion hall, buy some of the old guys drinks, and just sit and listen to ther stories they had to tell... Them guys are dying off left and right, and IMHO it's an end of an era, and tha'ts kind of sad :( |
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You are right it is an end of an era. You got people who are thinking they are tough, they are hard. They aint shit compared to what some of those old timers lived through. |
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My paternal Grandfather was an ornithologist who taught Biology at Bowdoin. His most famous student was Alfred Kinsey.
My maternal Grandfather taught Physics at Exeter. He grew up in Lowell, where he was the second person to own an automobile in that city. |
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Yup. She and I are hoping, one day, to do one of those MilTours that go to Iwo. It's pretty important to us. And yeah, it's unfortunate, but seems more and more "men" are not expected to be "men" anymore... |
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Also, I have to add that one of my great-grandfather's was drunk, and fell off a bridge into Quechee Gorge, and died. That was probably the most impressive thing he accomplished...
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it is a shame that elderly are pushed to the side, these men and women gave their all so we can live in the world we do with the luxuries we have and many times they are just forgotten, shoved into a corner to look out the window as the world passes them by |
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My stepfather was an alcoholic, and so as a kid I spent a loooot of time at the VA up to White River, and so I got to talk to a lot of the old guys up there that were kind of "warehoused". After a while, they were always asking where I was, and when I was coming back, so as I got older I made it a habit to go up there just to talk to people because they didn't have anybody. |
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As an aside, the navy has always had cool naming conventions, but some of the older ship names in the salvage fleet are cool.
I mean, what sailor wouldn't have wanted to serve aboard the USS Snatch? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Snatch_%28ARS-27%29 |
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Edmund Seib was born in 1896 on the second farm that his grandfather established after coming to the U.S. from Germany in 1861. He enlisted to serve in WWI and was in Florida waiting to be shipped off to Europe when the war ended. He never left the states. He became a cloth-cutter for Chrysler and eventually worked his way into management while still working the farm. He married Clara Dewes (b. 1897) and they had eight children; the seventh (interestingly enough the only one born in a hospital) of which died at only a few weeks old. My grandfather died on Pearl Harbor Day, 1974: almost three and a half years before I was born. Grandma died in 1991.
Donald English was born in 1904 in a small town in Southern Illinois. His father left his family and moved to Grand Island, Nebraska, leaving his wife Sarah to raise three girls and a baby boy. After eighth grade my grandfather went to work odd jobs in the Whiting/Hammond/East Chicago area. After a few years he moved back home and met Eileen Clark (b. 1905), a young Catholic girl who was determined to enter the convent even against her own father's (a stout Irish railroad worker) wishes. Donald would send letters to Eileen while she was at school, but would include secret messages written in lemon juice. My grandpa eventually got the drift that she wasn't interested and besides, he was Presbyterian. He started working for a man named Ollie DeLiel in Vincennes, IN in his department store and took what he learned there and became a manager for J.C. Penney. Ollie also sponsored my grandpa when he decided to become Catholic. Meanwhile, Eileen had decided to forego her journey to become a nun and the two met again not long after. This time around she was very much interested and they got married and had five children. The third, Mary Catherine, died at the age of six: one year before my mother was born. The family moved all over the Midwest as my grandpa was put in charge of different stores: Minneapolis; South Dakota; Kansas City; and Union, MO. In addition to being a homemaker, my Grandma English served as, of all things, a substitute English teacher. He retired from J.C. Penney and moved back to Vincennes to start his own children's clothing store. It was while they were in Vincennes that my mom met my dad at a workshop for CCD teachers. My grandmother died on the Feast of St. Joseph, 1978: 33 days before I was born. My grandpa died in 1989. My Great(x12) Grandmother (through the Udny/Uldneys) Matilda Corgon was the bastard daughter of a Bishop. My Great(x20) Grandfather (through the Gray-Beauforts) was Edward I, 24th King of England and Hammer of the Scots. In a strange twist of fate, my Great(x21) Grandfather (through the Bruces) was Robert Bruce I, 31st King of Scotland. My Great(x39) Grandfather (through the Gordons) was some dude known as Eochaid IV the Venomous of Argyll. My Great(x40) Grandfather (through the Clares) was Sveide: also known as Sveide the Viking. He was a Norse King born about 760. |
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My wife's father served in WW2 and was a member of the honor guard from Truman when he went over to Germany after the war. Prior to that, he was part of (although never confirmed by him) Patton's troops.
He didn't discuss his service at all with the family, but when we talked by ourselves, when he came over to the house, there were hints of his service. He always said that the best sight he ever saw a line of tanks moving through the French countryside. With that and his comment when we watched "Patton" one night lead me to believe he served under Patton. His comment, "This movie is okay. Patton was a tougher SOB." |
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