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| Date | 2017-12-17 |
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| Message | Hi Wayne D. Just want to wish you and wife Merry Christmas k to laterj |
| Date | 2017-11-19 |
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| Message | Served on Spangler from 1956 to Dec. 1957. Was an RM3 and used the GIBill for college. During the 1957 cruise to Westpac the ship was diverted to Kwajalein because I had double pneumonia. As a pollywog I was not inducted until our second crossing. Look at the map, the greatest cruise ever. |
| Date | 2017-11-01 |
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| Message | I woke up this morning remembering that 67 yeas ago I set foot on board USS Spangler DE696 as as an SA, fresh out of boot. With me were Dale Joyce, Charles Kimbrell, Stan Biess. There were a couple of others, but I don’t remember their names. She as in dry dock at Hunters Point naval shipyard, San Francisco.she as to be my home for the next 3 1/2 years. I left her in SanDiego on May 17 1954. She was a good ship and I am fillled with memories of my time and the friends I made. She has gone to the breakers yard now bu in our hearts she sails on. GOD bless all that served on her. |
| Date | 2017-09-20 |
| Message | 60 years ago, this year - who woulda dreamed it. I recall being on the bridge in '57 wondering if any of us would live to see year 2000 - what seemed like a long, long way in the future back then. Wonderful hearing from you Gene. "Whew" fits 1957 just right! |
| Date | 2017-08-05 |
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| Message | just dropping a line changing my address and to say hello to all my crew mates and wish a full speed ahead to all reminder 1957 whew!!! |
| Date | 2017-06-19 |
| Message | Back aboard ship again. Can feel the rumble! Smell the smell! This time aboard the S.S. Badger, a passenger-car ferry across Lake Michigan. A 4-hour trip. It's not the Spangler, but many times larger, more like the USS Prairie, a destroyer tender. The vibrating feel is the same. The Badger went into service in 1953, one before I stepped aboard the Spangler. Great memories! |
| Date | 2017-05-10 |
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| Message | I just read the Facebook page about Goers passing away. I well remember A J from our time together on the Spangler. He was a friend of several years and we exchanged Christmas Cards. All of us from this era of Spangler's life were good friends. I feel certain that he and Dave Norris have greeted each other in Heaven. smooth seas and following winds to all my old shipmates. |
| Date | 2017-04-30 |
| Message | Discovered a couple of youtube videos this afternoon you might be in interested in: The first is a video of the Defoe Shipbuilding Yard in Bay City, MI during World War II where the USS Spangler was constructed. The second is on the launching of the USS Currier DE-700, one of the Spangler's sister ships. The Spangler website's News Section has links to the two videos if interested. Enjoy! I did! |
| Date | 2017-04-21 |
| Message | A remembrance page was posted this evening in memory of Aubrey J.Goers (SO2) who passed away on Good Friday, April 14, 2017 in St. Louis, Mo. A special thanks is extended to Marlene Hunter and Bob Ellis for bringing the news of AJ's passing to our attention. Please visit the Remembrance section of the Spangler website to view the remembrance page. |
| Date | 2017-04-18 |
| Message | The following, sad to report, is a note from Sue Goers lettings us know that her husband and our Spangler Mate and good friend, A.J. Goers recently passed away: Dear Spangler Sailors, It is with a broken heart that I tell you that A.J. died on Good Friday at 5:15 and our children were with me at his bedside. He had been in the hospital in St. Louis for only 6 days. The doctors told us he died of acute leukemia. Months of blood tests, x-rays, and cat scans did not detect this disease. If you have addresses of other Spangler mates I would appreciate if you could pass along this news. Especially the Clugstons, Baums, and Simms. I know I have the addresses around here somewhere but I’m just not thinking very well. We are all still in shock over his rapid decline and death. A.J. was so fond of all of you and your spouses and we often reminisced about past gatherings. Thanks to all of you for the good times! Sadly, Sue |
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