Friday, August 12, 2022
Tension
"January 15, 1984 -- "We are almost to Manila, pulling in on the 17th. We just learned that they found a bomb planted in the US American Embassy in Manila, so we are really beefing up our security. Yesterday they had us shooting 45 cal. pistols off the fantail of the ship for fire arms training and...
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Thursday, August 11, 2022
The Holidays Are The Hardest
"December 24, 1983 -- "The holidays are still the hardest for me. I'm spending tonight and tomorrow with a friend of mine and his wife in a little town in Negishi about 15 miles from Yokosuka, but all I can think of is that all my loved ones are likely at your house celebrating Christmas Eve and...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Demonstrations Never Cease
It was on December 1, 1983 that Son wrote home about purchasing the cherry-red bicycle, and it was May, 1984 that he wrote about the accident. So he had a lot of fun with it and traversed a goodly portion of Japan with it before his accident. I just wanted to get the accident out of the way....
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Monday, August 8, 2022
The Cherry-Red Bike Catastrophy
Ribcage had a lot of fun with his new bike and with fellow-seamen who also bought bikes...for about five months. Whenever they were in port at Yokosuka, their shore leaves were spent biking places, going and doing and seeing and shopping, etc. In May 1984 he sent this note home: "I've been in the...
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Sunday, August 7, 2022
Mom's Are The Worrying Kind
When things go wrong, and they do that now and then, and your "child" is on the other side of the world, there is nothing one can do but pray. With four sons, I have always been a praying-mama. "December 1, 1983 -- "Ever since we got back from our cruise on Nov. 21, I haven't been doing so great....
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