re: Letter from Sec. of Navy

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hopefully, the families of all who received it treasure the letter as much as you do.

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Honestly, I can imagine my dad--the least boastful or attention-seeking person I've ever known--reading the thing and thinking to himself, "Yeah, I really saved the nation out there, keeping track of supplies on a broken down scow out in the the middle of the Pacific Ocean."

In fact, he did perform an act of heroism during the war--one I recounted a few days ago on this board--but I only found out about it from one of his shipmates.

My dad would've been mortified if that story had spread, he could've lived to be a thousand years old and I'd never had heard a word about it from his lips. Not uncommon among people who lived through those times.