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43. My memory was of his swimming. On land, he was not graceful, but in water, it was like watching a

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 11:43 PM

Jun 2016

a ballet. He learned to swim from Duke Kahanamoku. That was when he was stationed in Hawaii.

After he died on Christmas day, 1998, I went through his papers. One was of his courts martial when he was in Hawaii. He was off base and had a couple of drinks. Shore Patrol caught up with him and he had it all figured out. "There are several thousands of guys on this base. If I punch out the two SP's, and get away, how is anyone gonna figure out who I was."

He spent the summer month in the brig, watching guys marching up and down the field. He figured is summer was better than the guys marching back and forth in the summer sun.

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