USS BOSTON Sail and Rudder Co, Ltd. or Is there life after your boat gets scrapped?
I served in the Navy, a plankowner aboard the USS BOSTON (SSN-703) Decommissioned in 1999 and scrapped in 2002. Now I find myself in the unique cradle-to-grave position of helping to care for its remains at the Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park. All that really remain are the sail and rudder shipped here in 2003 along with a few cleats. I feel like I'm caring for a vessel that met a premature and untimely demise. Now I care for her remains. ...Sort of.
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THe REDCOATS are coming!
We Sure are!
Hey, did I ever tell you about the revelation I had oh, a about two months ago?
I was over at the home of the Glee Club director where he had some of the old programs from previous shows going back to the early 1950's. As I was looking at some of the stage credits I saw to my astonishment a familiar name...my mother's maiden name!!
You can know doubt imagine the shock at finding out fifty-four years ago, before she and my father had even met, when I was not even a glimmer in her eye, that she had performed with the same Glee club to which i have been a member for the past dozen years or so.
Listed along side performing in that show besides the director was another current member who has the same level of longevity with the group!
Somehow, things seem to come around in circles and this is no different. Strange, how life takes such interesting turns, isn't it?
I think that would blow your mind..
Just finding your mother's name in the credits but with the same Glee club...I believe things do go round too!
Sort of scary isn't it...when you see you're so old that you're in a museum!
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