On this day 60 years ago I joined the US Navy. I had never before considered the Navy. I had been a member of the Civil Air Patrol all through high school and had at one time threatened my parents with quitting school and joining the Marines. Little did I know then that the decision probably saved me from a early death in VietNam and that I would go on to serve 20 years. It also caused the eventual birth of at least six more people, as most likely, I would have never been in San Diego in 1964 or in Ft Lauderdale in 1969.
