Anoreth at the Korean War memorial on the Philadelphia dockside, in the company t-shirt she helped design. Her company was called "The Apes" for some reason, and there's summat on the back, too.
Posted on 08/28/2009 4:48:11 AM PDT by Tax-chick
Anoreth at the Korean War memorial on the Philadelphia dockside, in the company t-shirt she helped design. Her company was called "The Apes" for some reason, and there's summat on the back, too.
Anoreth and Bill in the bowels of the USS Olympia, Spanish-American War flagship of Adm. Dewey.
Another view of Seaman Apprentice Anoreth.
My great-uncle (my great grandmother's younger brother) Henry Augustus Dent, was with Dewey at Manila on board the "Olympia". IIRC he was paymaster or some such. We have a picture of him in a supremely silly hat with lots of feathers.
Pictures above (back to 85 or so) from Anoreth’s Coast Guard graduation.
Very nice! Signal halyards or some such and a ship’s bell behind her . . . that’s some kind of landmark on the campus, I’m sure.
I like the T-shirt. Figures she was in on designing it! Those are very polished anime’ apes . . . .
Company looks very sharp and trim. I’m glad (as Anoreth said upthread) that nobody zigged when they should have zagged . . . .
OF COURSE! No matter what goes on, a FReeper or his/her family was there!
We'll get a DVD, too. With a little jiggering, we can get it all on one disc with the birth-to-ship slideshow Bill's going to do (for a Consideration) in time to mail for Christmas.
She looks very professional indeed.
Bill’s face is so 19th Century. Very thin. He and DP stopped at the Stonewall Jackson Memorial (where Gen. Jackson died) on the way home today. The park ranger asked if they knew about Gen. Jackson, and DP said, “Well, yes ... we have a son named after him ....” and then a group of Yanks showed up who *didn’t know who Stonewall Jackson was*!
Egad. I told DP to find us a house rental in the relevant area, and we can all do a central Virginia Civil War blowout once Frank can walk.
She irons! She polishes her boots! She says, “Yes,Sir!” and “Yes, Ma’am” to everyone. I’m sure Dad felt right at home.
The DVD is mostly canned I'm sure, with a few scenes from the graduation itself. DH says he ordered it because he wanted to see the band again.
Of course the band is good - they do this EVERY Friday (well, almost every Friday - 48 weeks out of 52 in the year they graduate another company from Parris Island). But they are incredibly sharp and it was amazing to see them perform.
I think I saw evidence of a CG band out of the corner of my eye at the edge of one of the photos. WAS there a band? How were they? What did they play?
There was a band, but I have no idea what they played. DP would know, if I beat him about the head, because he was in Marching Band in high school (French horn). He had a college offer, Marion State in Sumter, SC, but didn’t take it because nobody in his family had ever been to college, and also because the Holy Spirit was way keen on the kids to be produced once he got to San Antonio, TX, and met me ;-).
My gg grandfather "plain private" N.W.E. Long. He met so many colonels, captains and what not after the War, that he concluded he was the only private who survived.
I'm said to resemble him, but I didn't get The Nose.
Fair winds and following seas.
SC Swampfox
USN 1983-1993
Thank you, FRiend! How this old church lady produced a Warrior Goddess, I don’t know.
Maybe it’s genes, my father was in the Navy for 27 years, retired in 1985.
Ol' Thomas J. would have said (probably to himself), "Well. I'll make sure they know."
Bill looks like me and Dad: Scotch-Irish and Dublin Irish. But even if you add DP’s German strain, it’s still the Face that Settled the Midwest.
Our Tom would have lectured them until they all subsided in a haze of Corn Whiskey.
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