| Message | Buck,
We overlapped briefly. Was a journalist and have fairly good recall for detail. Can still picture you. Big Sab, Ricky Charles Dorato, JO3 Jim Johns(t)on, Gary O'Keefe, Earl Clemens from Arizona, Jed Gaines, PAO LTjg Don Patrell, WO Bert Sickler, the lithographer's mates who had their own berthing quarters by the brig: Calabrese, Chittenden, Paul Logan (Logan on Layton in Dayton he intoned as he prepared to make his bird for the last time). Daryl Nehring, Steve Converse, W Whidden, Milo Rumfeldt, Tom Wolfmeyer; Novak and Profitt from the library-chaplin's office, etc., etc. The memories are still very vivid and rich: the personalities, the shipboard incidents, the liberty misadventures, the mid-rats, chief Norman of the mess decks, Chief Spivey (career retention petty officer: ship for six lads, ain't no bed of roses out there, navy takes care of its own, ship for six....) CPO Murphy. |