[Magdalen] Dress Blues.

[Sibyl Smirl]

I used to know a man who survived Pearl Harbor, and was on the Arizona, 
except that he was ashore at the time of the attack.  His brother died 
on the ship, and what's left of him is still on it.  Carl, the one I 
knew, was 17 at the time: his brother was 19.  He fought through the 
war, came home, and became a cop in Columbus, Kansas, Police Chief at 
the time I knew him, through to retirement.


On 11/12/15 4:14 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> I have a chocolate chip cap with the brim that goes all the way around,
> which i wore all the time while in Desert Storm, and I put that on for
> special days.  I realized in the evening of the eleventh that I had
> completely forgotten it.
>
> I just can't get into blowing my horn that much.  However, when I see
> someone with a cap that announces their pedigree, I try to thank them.  I
> best recollection was one Saturday morning, getting coffee on the way to a
> rehearsal, I saw a guy with USS Arizona on his cap.  It turned out he was
> manning the guns, and had been transferred off just prior to Dec. 7th.
>
> I thanked him for his service.  He gave a big grin. "Didn't have much
> choice!" he said.


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