AUGUST 9, 2006 This is a picture of my dad during the ceremony celebrating his retirement from the Navy. He is in the center facing the camera. While this was happening the rest of us were sitting in the car in the parking lot waiting for the ceremony to get over. The car was packed with our tent, supplies and a few belongings for the trip. As soon as he was through we were going to be on our way back to the state of Washington where we had come from almost 6 years before. It was a 3,000 mile drive and would take us about 5 days to get back in those days with very few freeways. The year was 1966. Most of us could not wait to get back to our beloved city of Seattle where we had started out from. I was so anxious to get back that I don't even remember one thing about that trip. We didn't do much site seeing because we basically just wanted to get back.

If he would have lived he would be 79 years old today. He died back in 1998 when he was 71 years old. He had a good and full life, and I think he accomplished most of what he wanted to do.