[or-roots] Memorial Day 2004

[DAVIESW739 at aol.com]

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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