Here is my info after I mustered out.

 

    After going  home to Chicopee, Massachusetts, I spent a year in the unemployment line, then I was given a job on the sanitation department. While working there I took the test for the fire department, four years later I received a call for an interview and I was hired by the fire department.

 

    While I was waiting for the fire department job I married my first wife Candy. In nineteen seventy six we had a set of twins, a boy Aaron and a girl Rebecca, they were two months premature and very small. At the age of two weeks my daughter had a brain aneurysm and was handicapped  for the rest of her life, she passed away in nineteen eighty seven at the age of eleven, she brought me a lot of joy. Her brother Aaron is now thirty one and doing great. In nineteen seventy nine we had another son, Paul he is twenty nine and doing well also. My wife divorced me in nineteen eighty five.

 

    I married my second wife in nineteen eighty eight, her name is Linda. In nineteen ninety one we had a girl we named Nicole, she is sixteen now a junior in high school, and the boys are starting to hang around, lucky me. Linda and I will celebrate our twentieth anniversary in April of next year.

 

    I retired from the fire department in two thousand and three on my fifty fifth birthday, after almost thirty years of service to my home town. Now I'm a house husband, I stay home and do housework, run errands and play a little golf in the summer.

 

     I am really looking forward to seeing some of my shipmates in Seattle in two thousand nine, until then be happy, stay safe.

 

Love to you all,

Dick Lolos QM3SS

USS SPINAX SS489