Oh but I did forget to mention Bob Day, my father-in-law and a veteran who served for nearly 23 years in the Navy. Dear Bob passed away last October of a bout with cancer. Bob was born July 17, 1933 and was just 75 when he passed away last year. He enlisted in the navy in 1952 and served through some of this nation's most tumultuous times - The Korean War, The Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam. During the Vietnam war he served with the once secret VO-67 Squadron, whose mission included dropping sounding devices along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Bob retired in 1974 and became a postal carrier. He loved delivering mail in Spokane Washington, because it gave him a chance to be outside and to walk. His second career lasted nearly 20 year. He finally joined the retired crowd in 1992 and he and his wife Helen (my mom-in-law) started traveling. Their last trip was with Val (my wife) and I to St. Martin. That was in 2006.
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