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Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« on: November 13, 2013, 10:30:51 PM »
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After signing my Pop, EM2 Bud Cloud (circa Pearl Harbor) up for hospice care, the consolation prize I’d given him (for agreeing it was OK to die) was a trip to “visit the Navy in San Diego.”

I emailed my friend and former Marine sergeant, Mrs. Mandy McCammon, who’s currently serving as a Navy Public Affairs Officer, at midnight on 28 May. I asked Mandy if she had enough pull on any of the bases in San Diego to get me access for the day so I could give Bud, who served on USS Dewey (DD-349), a windshield tour.

The next day she sent me an email from the current USS Dewey (DDG 105)’s XO, CDR Mikael Rockstad, inviting us down to the ship two days later.

http://idrivewarships.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/a-sailors-dying-wish/

BZ to the crew of the USS Dewey for making this happen.

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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2013, 10:55:27 PM »
Is it just me or is there something wrong with my monitor going all blurry?

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Later that night Bud sat in his recliner, hands full of ship’s coins and declared, “I don’t care what you do with my power tools; you better promise you’ll bury me with these.”

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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2013, 10:57:01 PM »
Have to finish reading that later.  Dusty in here.  Got in my eyes about halfway through.
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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2013, 11:13:49 PM »
That story gives one the warm fuzzies.  Thanks for sharing, BobR.
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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2013, 11:40:54 PM »
I got to him being piped ashore before my monitor went on the fritz

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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2013, 03:29:19 AM »
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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2013, 09:48:24 AM »
That's awesome.  Too bad the photo at the end is all out-of-focus. 

Well done, sailor.  Be thou at peace.
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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2013, 11:01:42 AM »
Great story! It sure stirs the heart.
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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2013, 11:32:04 AM »
Darn monitors have gone blurry.
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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2013, 11:34:48 AM »
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He died 13 days later. For 12 of those 13 days he talked about the Dewey, her Sailors and his visit to San Diego. Everyone who came to the house had to hear the story, see the photos, hold the coins, read the plaques.

Yes, a great story.   =)
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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2013, 01:35:08 PM »
Sounds like a nationwide problem with blurry monitors.  It's really bad here.


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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2013, 01:54:47 PM »
Some kind of dust storm in here . . .
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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2013, 03:12:35 PM »
Great story.  Now I have to reinstall my video drivers and reboot.  That must be it.
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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2013, 04:29:23 PM »

I met Major Winters once, before Band of Brothers came out. Seemed like a very nice man. Kinda an "oh ****, that old guy killed how many Nazis?" moment after I saw Band of Brothers.

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Re: Old USS Dewey sailor visits the new USS Dewey
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2013, 06:36:20 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on November 14, 2013, 04:29:23 PM
.... As I recall, he wasn't a big drinker, or I'd leave an appropriate shot for him.

No need for him to have been a drinker.  And even if it's merely one of those airline almost-a-full-shot bottles, it's the thought that counts.

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If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

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They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.
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