[or-roots] Memorial Day 2004

[David Patrick]

Are you any kin to the North Carolina Kennedy's?
dpatrick at calweb.com
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  From: DAVIESW739 at aol.com 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:00 AM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Memorial Day 2004


  Hey Cecil you aren't the only one who had a sailor suit in 1944 this is my family I'm the cute little guy on the right my brother John is on the left.


  I remember the day we sat around gramma Kennedy's old red radio and heard the Atom bomb I always thought that the red radio was just glowing red when we heard it. It sounded like it would last forever. I wonder how many other people remember this.

  I remember after the war every store in loomis was selling some kind of war surplus Mom bought John and I a helmet liner to play war in. Things have sure changed HUh!
  I also went into the Navy but only spent 12 years 4 active and 8 reserve. I just joined the VFW they finally let me in as I was in active duty during the only 5 year piece time of the 50s 60s 1958 to 62 I hit it right in the middle. I qualified for the VFW because I earned the Expeditionary Medal for the Laos Action in 1961 in the South Chine Sea. 
  I also remember the 5 days that we were in the worst of a typhoon with 200 MPH winds and green water over the bridge 80 ft. above the water line. Taking 45 degree rolls day and night and slamming from one big wave to the next. We turned the ship around against all advice and took a 48 degree roll 3 beyound the maximum that we able to take, we knowked back up by a large wave slamming agianst us. We were in the ame spot as the three ships that went down during WW II and took the lives of the Sullivan boys, I almost shook hands with them. 

  Walt Davies
  Cooper Hollow Farm
  Monmouth, OR 97361
  503 623-0460 

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