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Vaughn was in the same compartment i was in so as they say he was a shipmate and a loyal friend. How he could even stand me is hard to beleive. I am almost ashamed to admit the cruel things i did him, god he was a good sport. He had chronic seasickness whenever the […]

We are living in hawthorne’ and i am around five or six years old. There was a vacant lot across the street from our house, and in the lot lived trapdoor spiders, and my sister dorothy and i would seek out there trapdoor and capture them in a unique way. There door was in the […]

This is my favorite story of all, these guys were my bosses while i was on the deck force. I will start with Henser i suspect he was polish by accent, did not know how to cuss like most people. He had little respect for anybody that he out ranked. I teased these three guys […]

Well i want at least one story that includes my wife joy. The year is 1967 and Joy and i have saved some money to buy a new car. We both decided to a station wagon. I remember i told her i would pick out something really nice, and then off to guarantee chevrolet. The […]

I was in the 8th grade and i got this 1929 model A sedan. It was in need of a paint job. It was a joke if someone would say ‘hey what did they paint your car with a broom,’so my friends and i decided that we would paint it, so we masked off the […]

I was sixteen years old when i was faced with with the decision of moving to oregon to live with my brother. No one had enough room to take me in…

I only have six months to go in the navy,and instead of letting me out early they transfer me to the u s s general mann a transport ship, going to korea, and then japan. We are leaving seol korea after only being there for only six days. We are now underway to yokohama japan. […]

Boot camp has come to an end and our orders are on the bulletin board. Everyone knows exactly what kind of ship there going on except me and a ship mate who has the same orders as me. It says we will report to Boston Massachusetts and report to AGB5 the name of the ship […]

Well as i recall i am five years old and i have a goat, it just getting dark out side. I have not been able to find my goat. Suddenly my brother kenneth came in and informed me that dad had killed the goat a few minutes ago. I was really quite upset and was […]

Im living in Hermosa beach, and i am in the third grade, the war is still going on, and all of us are worried about my brother harold. He is on a mine sweeper somewhere in saipan. The house we are renting is thirty five dollars a month I remember that becasue everyone thought it […]

It was just about a week to go and then school would start and i was going to be in the first grade, i was excited to see all my friends but My sister Dorothy told me she knew the teacher i was going to get, and said she is really mean. I remember how […]

Need I was stationed in Boston, I was on liberty. It’s about three in the morning, and the waldorf cafeteria is open all night. I am going in to have breakfast with a girl, as we walked through the lane to order our breakfast, we were greeted by the cook whom was the only one […]

I thought things on liberty are kind of funny for example one nite i was on my way back to the ship i was hitchhiking and a gay guy picked me up and gave me a ride when i was getting out he offered to give me sex, i said no i like girls he […]

I am five years old and in kindergarten, it is about one mile to school and my sister Dorothy and I usually walk together. I know this particular day i walked home by myself, as i left school that day headed for home i remember thinking i should go to the bathroom, but knowing more […]

The weekend was here and the rasey’s are going to forrest falls. We had a car that is called an Anglia it is a ford car,made for the the u k they stopped production of them around nineteen sixty. It was a four cylinder and looked like a small ford. We had the model they […]

I am in a dinner house and i am bartending about four guys walked up to the bar all of them clad in motorcycles garb all them were kind of flaky looking. They ordered drinks and began to talk and unfortunately they used the f word in every sentence. People were dining across from the […]

I will never forget the time charlie and i bought nine of the finest elephant’s money could buy, well sir we were forced to buy these elephant’s, the circus people were going broke so charlie and i bought them well sir if didn’t those elephant’s would starve to death. Well sir we began training them […]

I am going to central grade school, this is where jim maxwell and i have been transferred to. I did not think that i would like central, it will turn out to be the the most wonderful step in my teen life. It was something special for those who were in our circle of friends, […]

Im living in Hermosa beach, and i am in the third grade, the war is still going on, and all of us are worried about my brother harold. He is on a mine sweeper somewhere in saipan. The house we are renting is thirty five dollars a month I remember that becasue everyone thought it […]

We are getting closer to alert i am standing a four hour watch five nights a week usually ihave the helm, i was trained on it about a month ago. The officer on watch would yell out the course, and you would repeat the order and stay on it until he changed it again. I […]

Angelo and i were friends for a long time in fact he lived across the street from me. We were out looking for something to do. Someone had told us about this party. When we arrived a fight had broke out. We didn’t even go in we were just about back to angelos car. When […]