Friday, November 13, 2026

Bob Delmonteque


Chuck Rybonski


Bob McKibbon


Johnny Rocke


Mike Powers


Ed Charles


Louis Tarr


Leonard Chambers


Bud Counts


Dale Curry


Ed Bentley


Dave Johnson


Down in front 6


Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Veterans Day

My grandfathers were only five years apart in age, but that small increment meant that my paternal grandfather drove ambulances in Italy in 1918 while my maternal grandfather was still in high school.

 

A group portrait, probably taken in New York

 

With Ivy in Italy 


 

Drivers and their ambulances


 

My mother’s father graduated from the Naval Academy at 20

 

 

With Captain E. J. “Mike” Moran, March 1942

 

 

As commander of the GRAYSON, a destroyer, in December 1942