Posted on December 27, 2007 by sottovoco
Benazir Bhutto is dead. She was shot leaving a political rally in Pakistan. Earlier this year, a school got built in Nepal using $10,000 donated from Room to Read and over 100 families volunteering their labor. In 1957, my father-in-law’s Bouy Tender, the Kukui, collected over 45,000 books for children [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2007 by sottovoco
My father-in-law was the first Captain of the USS Knoxville, PF-64, during WW2. This Patrol Frigate first served in the Atlantic, running out of Norfolk as a training vessel. The Knoxvillle was then deployed as a transport and escort ship from the east coast to Africa, occassionally engaging in an anti-submarine vessel, and returned to Norfolk [...]
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