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New Bedford remained my home through my secondary school years. I graduated from New Bedford High School in 1965. I had the opportunity to go to college, but I opted for a hitch in the Navy. If you recall, at that time, you only had a few choices: go to college, wait to be drafted, enlist or get married and hope for the best.

After an exciting ten weeks at NTC Great Lakes and a couple of weeks leave, I flew to Subic Bay in the Philippines, to catch my ship, the USS Mansfield DD-728. Our main mission was plane guard duty with the carrier USS Kittyhawk. We also alternated three day support fire missions with the other ships in our group along the Vietnam coast and up the Saigon River a couple of times. A lot of excitement for an eighteen year old kid. We had liberty calls in Hong Kong, Yokosuka, Subic Bay and Pearl Harbor. In June of 1966 I went to CT (Communication Tech) school in Pensacola, FLA. Upon graduation, I was sent to Bremerhaven, Germany for two years or so. After being discharged

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