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Irish_Dem

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8. I can't blame your mother.
Fri Feb 2, 2024, 11:29 PM
Feb 2024

Having lost one son, two was unimaginable and unbearable.
I hope there were remains for your mother to bury? My USN uncle was killed
when his ship was sunk by the enemy in WWII. The family never got the body of course.

Oh I love submarines, I don't know why.
That is a great career goal, Captain of a USN submarine.

Your dad must have loved flying. He wanted you to be a Navy pilot.
That would have been neat too.
I don't know how they land their planes on these ships bobbing around in the sea.
My Dad flew combat in Viet Nam, I don't know why but I have been thinking about that time.
Like you are doing.

Glad you went on and did the diving. I was raised in a USAF family but my brother
did the water thing: diving instructor/master, worked underwater as a engineer building oil rigs in the Gulf.
Lived on a boat and sailed around the world.



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