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| We are having our annual get together/tournament at the Geneva Golf Course on July 22 2006. All classmates are welcome, and enen the Class of '68 is invited. We had three people from the Class of '68 participate last year, and we expect a few more this year. STARTING TIMES: 10-10:50 AM Arrive/Register/Practice 10:50 AM Putting Contest 12 noon 1st tee time We need to plan enough tee times, so If you didn't play last year or you have a question Call Steve Colby @ 320 766 0722 or send me an e-mail Hope to see you there! Steve 06.22.06 |
| 08.21.06 From Ian Peterson: I am back at sea on a man-of-war again. The landlubbers mind cannot begin to comprehend the joy in a gobs heart of returning to sea after an extended abscence. I once again walk on moving steel decks. I hear and speak my native language, and the snipes around me understand. I'm immersed in the extreme heat of a boiler room. The whine of turbines, noisy pumps, and water hammers ring in my ears. Bells and a bosun's pipe regulate my day and inform me of events. I am gently rocked to sleep by the ocean waves. Pinochle in the goat locker while "enjoying" midrats is in order. The evening is spent on the fantail sitting on a cleat in silent contemplation. SHIP: USS Pelelieu, LHA-5 I reported onboard in Pearl Harbor. The ship is homeported in San Diego and has just came off a six month deployment in the Persian Gulf. My tour will be short, about 3 months. I have relieved the Master Chief of Engineering and will be taking the ship through a short yard overhaul. This allows him some R&R, and time to go to school. After the yard period and demonstration of satisfactory repairs, I go back home. Not much time at sea, but hey, better than nothing. |
