A Real Wwii Story
Frisco Kid says that I need to put this on the site. Let's see if I can do it fast enough.
My father and his fraterity brothers all left school and enlisted right after Peal Harbor. Dad chose the Navy and volunteered for UDT. (Underwater Demolition Team) These were the precursor to todays SEALS. Anyway, they gave him a bowling ball and asked him to swim the length of the pool underwater. Daddy didn't have the heart to tell them he couldn't swim, thought he'd learn that before hand. He jumped in and he and bowling ball went right to the bottom. He stayed until they came to get him. He was then sent to Signal School.
On his way to the Pacific, dad was in California and went to a USO dance. There he met my mom. They danced every night until he shipped, which wasn't long. They wrote to each other while dad saw the horrors of Guadalcanal, and the luck to then go to Samoa for the rest of his tour.
Upon his return from the war, he stopped in California, married mom, and were together almost 57 years.
A real WWII story.
Packo
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04-26-2002, 12:13 PM
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