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Ramblings
From the Editor!
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Congratulations to our
Captain Jack O'Connell on his success as a budding
author!! We wish him the best in his endeavors! "The attached book review covers The Effectiveness of Airpower in the 20th Century, Book Three (1945 - 2000), and makes very nice reading for me as an author. I published the second book, Book One (1914 - 1939) in May of this year, and Book Two (1939 - 1945) is at the publisher now. We still have another round of proofs to do but it ought to be in print in six weeks or so. The three volumes started as one very long, over 900 page book, and the effort goes back some 12 - 15 years. It has kept me off the street corners and out of the pool halls for quite a while. Jack O'Connell" (Link to review of the Captain's book)! Shipmates, I have learned that there are the unclaimed cremated remains of forgotten veterans sitting on mortuary shelves across the land.
A friend has introduced me to a new organization called the "Missing in America Project." This organization was founded to locate, identify and arrange for burial, with honors, those veterans who have been cremated and left to gather dust on mortuary shelves. There are vets who have been there for decades! This is just disgraceful! How'd you like to be stuck sitting on shelf with nobody to care about you? MIAP can use a few good men/women to help. Please visit their website at www.miap.us for more information. |
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Crewmembers on Eternal Patrol: "Blow all main ballast, valiant crew. We're surfacing in God's country!" Changes of address, phone numbers and emails. If anyone has a change let me know ralarsen@comcast.net Newly Found Shipmates: I am responding for my dad, Arturo Abenir.Dad said he served on the USS Spinax from 1958-1963. He became an
EM2SS. He later retuned to the Philippines and was assigned to the USS
Sea Fox (1964) then went on Shore duty Dec. 1964 Newfoundland, Canada.
In 1966, he was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk. In 1967, he served
on the USS Requin. 1968 Key West, FL. 1969 Great Lakes, Illinois Class B
School. 1969-1972 Rota, Spain served on the USS Holland AS32 Squadron (CPO).
1972-1975 Groton, Connecticut Submarine Engineering Support Facility.
1975-1977 USS Forrestal. Dad retired after serving 20 years in the Navy
and 17 years Civil Service. Change of Address: Robert "Skeeter" Nevin, 290 Laurel Landing Blvd Kingland, GA 31548. E mail is the same! rfnevin@tds.comfnevin@tds.ne |
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