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You became construction workers, plumbers, manufacturing assembly line workers, mine workers, stock market employees, electricians... workers in the retail trade, etc., etc. Most starting at the bottom and worked up over the years. You became a member of society... and it takes many skills and trades working together to make a society... each and every one of you held a position that was necessary for this society to function as a whole. Some of the jobs were just temporary as means to another. Stepping stones on your path ahead.

Hopefully most of you found what you were looking for. What you settled for is an individual concept as to what you considered life is worth. If you felt that you had to have wealth, position, power...so be it...that was your choice. Others of you wanted and sought for that which gave you the most pleasure and satisfaction in your daily life...so be it for you. But I imagine that the majority of us just tried many different ways of expressing ourselves... in most cases the rating that you held in the service had no big demand in civilian life. We went into the service without any marketable skills... especially the younger ones of us. But through trial and error most of us finally settled down into a manner that was easy for us to accept.

Whatever it was... it was something that someone had to do to make a community and society function as a whole.

There is no better or worse... from bus boys, the street cleaners, sanitary engineers, fireman, policeman, doctors, lawyers, preachers and on and on. All of it is necessary, all is essential to our communities, towns and cities which make up our society and way of life.

The one thing that you can count on, is that which you were so many years ago, helped from that which you are today. That experience of your term in the Amphibious Forces helped mold a part of your character that carried you through many a difficult time since then. You learned to accept difficult and the unexpected as part of every day life. That term in the United States Navy out backbone in your framework with the knowledge that you carry on through it all.

So, that which you were and that which you are, has come together. You are a whole being now... older, wiser (hopefully), looking forward days of calm, mild weather, sitting in the sun, thinking back to those times so long ago... saying to yourself...I DID GOOD... and so you did. So long for now... until we sail again.

William Ewertz GM 1/c

21451 E Charter Oaks Rd.

Luther, OK 73054-9605

1-405-277-3454

E-mail: willylumpy@aol.com

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