Interview with John W. Jones, Jr., WWII veteran. CCSU Veterans History Project

John were you drafted or did you enlist enlisted you recall the date well only that it was shortly after my graduating from high school yeah so you graduated and then you immediately enlisted yeah 1943 why did you enlist well it was wartime and I went with some other guys too you know other than the other young fellows that were graduating and so we enlisted so you all went down together yeah where were you living at the time but do report Massachusetts now you enlisted in the Navy why did you choose the Navy I don't know I think probably I heard and better words about the Navy than I did the army and we lived right side of the river and boats and so forth did you have any experience growing up with ships or the ocean or working on boats no I didn't work on yeah we lived near the ocean and and the river Merrimack River and every Sunday in the nice weather my father would take us all down to what's to the river the river and rent a boat and we'd roll out and go fishing and as a family the whole family do you recall your first days in service where did you go right after you enlisted to Rhode Island Connecticut Rhode Island yeah no Newport Rhode Island report Newport Rhode Island yeah is that where you did your basic training yeah can you tell me what that was like what kinds of things did you do well one thing that we did was do a little running around and sound with the boat with it boat you know get used to the being on the water and some of the things we did was jumping into the swimming pool pretending the ship was sinking and it was gasoline burning on the water you had to dive in swim underwater raise up take a breath and thrash our arms around to keep the flames away in case you're still there that type of thing do you recall how long basic training lasted oh it's probably was around three months you recall any memorable incidents that happened during basic training no not really no yeah yeah yeah there was one you're all in line and yeah and there's a line of people and you get started today they all got needle just get a boom boom boom you're going down all right cool if you wonder what the hell's ago or not they weren't gentle well it was just surprising yeah where did you go following your basic training I went to st. Louis Missouri to an a school what an a school it was electrical but it was you know the basic electrical did you choose that you wanted to go into the electrician or did the Navy choose that for you I had suggested common to your electrical and they chose the electrical did you have any prior experience with electrician electricity I mean just fooling around so how long did a school last and then that was about three months and what did you learn there just the basics of electricity yeah do you have any memorable experiences from your time in st. Louis [Music] only that I met a nice family and young lady that we were friendly we yeah where did you go after st. Louis I went to Washington DC - a Navy base with the electrical interior communication school that was about eight months what kinds of things did they teach you there all kinds of electronics and electrical and how to play volleyball what kind of electronics did you work with there do you Todd during number I know remember exactly but it was two to familiarize you with some of the equipment on ships and so forth some powered telephones you know various things I forget now though all the details but it was mostly communication electronics and oh no with wiring and and generators and so forth now were they training you so that when you went on board a ship you would be able to do any electrical thing that came up whether it was fixing things on the ship or working with the communication well actually to fix up the electrical on the ship that was what I went aboard ship to do as an electrician after your 8 months in Washington where did you go to a ship on who was on a shakedown cruise I picked it up I forget where it was on the East Coast what ship was it USS Hyman db7 32 so you picked it up for the shakedown cruise and is this the ship that you stayed on for the rest of your time yeah Wow okay so you picked up that and somewhere on the East Coast and where did you go for the shakedown cruise well then I'd already been part of the shakedown crew was done but we went down to Maine and we get Liberty occasionally to go over and go to a restaurant or something you know just to see the area and then we went south through the Panama Canal and up the west coast of the United States I think we I don't know he stopped at San Diego uh well San Francisco first but we stopped it both of those cities did you know that you were heading overseas at that time yeah once you left the United States where was your first step Pearl Harbor Hawaii did you stay for very long at Pearl Harbor yeah we stayed in awhile I don't know why but we the officers were learning to [Music] bomb used bombardment techniques to shoot the guns so there were some islands that were barren and they'd shoot at targets there different little islands what was Pearl Harbor like during the time you went there because this is after the bombing this is two years after who was - it was just the Navy you know well Navy ships were it was an ordinary-looking yuria was the damage from the bombing still visible no really no did you live on the ship or did you have quarters on the base I lived on the ship yeah can you describe what the USS payment was what kind of a ship it was and large and how many minute wormhole well I think we had 400 guys then it was destroyer pictures yeah oh great and we will include pictures with them and we'll attach these photos to John's record so can you tell me a little bit about a destroyer its capabilities and its purpose well I had two engines two high-pressure steam engines two propellers I had had gun mounts on the bow amidships and on toward the stern 5-inch guns at that time we had something new we had proximity shells so that if you came close to your target it would explode you didn't have to hit your target directly which was good when you shooting at the airplanes so a destroyer how would it drown did you travel in a convoy did you travel with escort were you alone we a destroyer we traveled a lot with yet craft carriers because the the pilots would sometimes not land right or they might not take off right and we'd have to pick them up out of the water and then when we did we got 22 gallons of ice cream for me for each pilot that we picked up because they lost the plane you know this song do you recall oh yeah we did we've got a lot of pilots because we ran with aircraft carriers for a while but then when we were not doing that we would be convoying ships that didn't have the [Music] convoy Jerry did b1 a3 a5 whatever when you left the United States to go to Perle did you go alone or in a convoy with other ships oh we went in the convoy yeah after after you left Pearl's so didn't they they were practicing where did you go I don't remember exactly but I think basically we went to Iwo Jima what can you recall about I can give you a long story go ahead tell me okay well for the for a day or two after the troops are landed on the island we were doing some bomb biting from the ship and one in toward evening a marine had climbed up on Mount Suribachi which we called hot rocks and he wanted firepower so I skipped a volunteered and I had to searchlight with a couple of guys for crew so we would match up the guns of the searchlight and go around and the Marine would tell us when we were pointed at an area where a coastal defense gun would come out of a cave because the gun would go back in the cave so we leave the guns aimed at that spot and run the searchlight around and when the gun came out the Marine would let us know and we'd shoot the gun away and we did this all night long and we cleaned the whole mountain of the coastal defense guns yeah oh and they were also shooting onto our troops that were on the island too so we cleaned all the that hot rocks out and in the morning I'm I'm tired and we headed for my book and they say come topside and see the raising of the flag I say the hell with that blah I'm tired so you were actually at AO Jima when they raised the flag but you didn't see it because you went to bed well that's why they raised the flag cuz we cleaned the mountain oh yeah yeah so you were instrumental in that and then you never even saw it I didn't see the flag raising no not until actually not until I got home later on use wait act yeah did you realize then did you say I was there the most to me was normal I mean sure I was I looked up I feel about it you after you Jeeva where did you ship dock well we went to several islands or three or four islands and we went to lady the northern tip of the Philippines and I can tell you stories about some of the islands picking with pictures tell me about the islands well one of them had a seaplane hangar and a place to launch the seaplane this was for the Japs and that was destroyed partially destroyed and rounding it corner was to oil tanks which were damaged by being shelled and then there was two tunnels that ran back in the rock solid rock and when you got in there there was a ladder you could climb up the ladder now this is solid rock and you could look down with a bright light and you could see that this was a big oil tank no you could see with the bright light you could see the sides it was at least 20 foot deep probably 30 foot deep but you can even see the far end it was that big and it was all solid rock amazing and I think that was casali upon a thing those two let's probably in my diary so did they did seek that out and what did they store in their coil that's how long that's how the Japs prepared for the things that they did amazing and it was at a time when some of the places were being super surrendered by the Japs so we took the surrender of some of the islands what was that like can you describe one of those surrenders oh they come with the Japs would come out in a boat and come then we had an Advil on a ship at some time and they get up in the fo'c'sle and do their paperwork or whatever and then take off major but get on the ship and go back to Japan oh when they surrendered we did not take prisoners of war they let them all loose yeah yeah I have pictures of that of the Japs when you were a late date was this after or before or during the Battle of Ladyhawke Oh was after and that area had been released from the jabs and they were so happy about it that they invited us to a ceremony Japanese dinner American event the Japs along at least where I will walk and these were fetched tots you know natives but they had to do they happen to have a German chief a guy that came from Germany and so they celebrated by having to cooking food and dancing the guys did the dancing and part of it was like this and the women would giggling like and what you could do there is you tell the guy you wanted one and climb a coconut tree get a coconut bring it down and bring one and with this big knife he's lop off the top so you could drink the the juice and to pay for itit took get back the cigarette flip them up and he took this as many as you flipped up he tuck that was his pay for doing that that was it I think we left there in our storm so we could get to open all without being done what you do you remember what year that was well I descend here but I can't I can't really do oh don't include that too so we can actually see what you did you know that you heading to Okinawa yeah a fierce battle we knew we were headed to Okinawa I didn't know a little what was going to happen when you left the Philippines how many other ships were you traveling with I think we were all alone one lonely destroyer Okinawa yeah can you tell me what happened what you guys don't do know what that was like well we wear some chips were there and we had to protect them from submarines so we you know we're patrolling the air the local area and when a Sun came up we give a depth depth charges yeah in fact in fact one submarine came up on the fourth side just about the area where my bunk was I they told me about some ring come up what little never went down again they were gonna top either the ship that was over there and we were in the way so I was sleeping in my bunk at the time so I could have got a top you know way through your window what can you describe what the depth charges were like and what you had to do for that well the duck charges were like a trash can and we had them in several places on the stern of the ship and they were so that you could roll them roll them out and they dropped in the water she had to kind of keep moving a little because after they got to a certain depth in a while it exploded and sometimes the hull of the ship would kind of lift stops explosion according how fast or how slow you were going you know when you were on board the destroyer and you know and you were in contact with with Japanese what were your duties what would you be doing as an electrician would you be doing electrical work or would you be manning guns no I had the searchlight that was well you I can show you in the picture it was on the fun part of the after stack over top of that tough Beatle tunes and that was my general quarter station and you would man the searchlight and you would have to direct it how would you know where you would be directing it well I I was I had the phones and a helmet and a life jacket on and I had a one guy sitting there for elevation and one guy was sitting there for training out and we could also come acted up to the fire-control area so that if they wanted to follow the guns they could connect the searchlight and trained it out themselves that was an important job like I'm Suribachi when the Marine that was on shore would tell you where to aim your searchlight is that how you knew how did you talk to him - radio know the we were automatically connected to the guns at the time was yeah so they were the guys that had from the fire control there was a special room with all the equipment and they controlled all the guns direction and the searchlight if we were connected to them the searchlight would automatically go where the guns were going yeah that at the lot of the time yeah train out match up and shift automatic with the clock well we were trained out match up and chip to automatic I was too for them to connect and then they could control weather so it's like went now I know that there was an incident where your ship was hit at Okinawa can you describe that to me well we when we left the area where we were and went to a patrol a section off of ie Island and we did that for a day so 24 hours or so and then they called us back to the area we had come from and the ship - relieved us as we almost got back to there said they had trouble they had been they'd been hit and they were sinking by these suicide planes so we steamed back to that area and he claims would come in and would you blow him up and one one went over the shipment just missed the ship so we got about seven now the eighth one came down at a very steep angle and he hit right in the middle of the ship when the top either yeah and we all we already had shot the wing off and so forth but because of the angle and momentum he kept coming so he came in hit down through the top attitude and down through the we called the pharmacy killed some of the pharmacy guys who did so and it went into the forward engine room now the job that I wanted when I got a board ship was that electrician on the board and the end you know wouldn't give it to me they gave me the search I call the guy on the board in the engine room got killed instantly and the plane engine went out to the side of the hall so then mentally that engine room and we had a fire room for the front for the forward engine room and a fire room for the naked steam for the after in general well it knocked out the forward engine room and the after fire room so now we had a fire room up here in an engine room back here well anyway we got two more planes after that they kept coming and then we got back to the area where we were and they patched the hole in the side of the hall and we were working down in these spaces with high high pressure steam unit if you did that test a leak your finger was gone and we it was no lights down here of course because everything was damaged well we were down there changing the connections to the sound powered telephones and electrical connections so that the two could work together and [Music] then we were gonna leave for the states and next one when you got hit that sounds pretty serious that that plane went all the way through the engine kept going were you in danger of sinking not really because it was only one compartment that was flooded and you could see all that off it was they all were sealed up you know the different compartments were separated yeah but because of the damage you had to repair it before you could leave yeah and they had to patch the hole up on the side of the hull because it was below the water and half an hour before we left a minesweeper came by and took a mine right off of where we were gonna be going so we got lucky yeah well now let me tell you more about that the plane came down one of my men of the tool on a certain light jumped to the next area his body was outlined on the stack by shrapnel you could see him you could see his body by the fact that the stack didn't have shrapnel where he was at that moment he jumped myself I hit the deck and then I thought it over the thing and I was going down for the second deck and I remember they had the telephones on with helmet over the telephones so I quick whipped out my knife and cut the cord for I got two when that was fast yeah you're right so I get down to the second deck and I went down to the first deck and now the fire hoses will have had damage to them by the shrapnel so I went broke out a new fire hose and brought it up to midships because that's whether it was things burning there and an officer took the nozzles away from me so I figured I'd turn around make sure the water gets turned on just then one of our top Ito's exploded like a blown down and when I get ready I was picking myself up and there was a coin spinning on the deck and so I picked it up and put it in my pocket it was that officer's lucky coin dollar and he was never seen again he got I got he must have got blown over what sweet the power you thinking no you did you at your on deck when that plane was coming at you did you even have time to think about it did you know he was gonna get the chip oh yeah you can see him coming that's when I hear you thinking huh I I hit the deck of the searchlight platform what could you do you come go go anyway so anyway after that since I didn't have a general quarter station and the pharmacy was blown up and pharmacists mates were damaged the wounded are dead so I broke out supplies and anytime a guy went by with a flash burn on his face or something I'd put some sod wipes hablan you know so they I did that for and eventually I put my life jacket because I had the phones in the house I had to have the lifejacket that wrapped around and not the window was a vest so I put my lifejacket on my book and then they and when I went down to it it was smoked down where was doubled over my stomach the shrapnel went in there I didn't get a scratch so I was lucky that way and then we got we had to come back to the state 17 degrees rudder to go straight but we I destroy us to do this when they could protect in the convoy so with one engine well we're going faster than the other ships are going so with one engine and seventeen degrees or other to go straight we had the zigzag there you can imagine what that was how long did it take you to get back to the United States going that way no I don't remember that was the normal normal travel you know the normal speed well while we were going out there was a a partially destroyed destroy him that passed us they were headed to the States this guy got so disturbed about it maybe he went cuckoo when he jumped overboard when they sent the boat after me refused to take a take the line and he just round so that was one guy well off right away now where did you land in the United States when you came back trisko neither you do it's a big Navy Yard there and then shipped up repair what did you do all they were repairing the ship well we had a what do you count it'll leave a Liberty yeah I'll leave hey Kate you know so I went home and now when you when you were writing letters you couldn't disclose any information about what you are doing or not so to my folks I wrote that you remember the day with the BP gun I shot the weather vane on the garage it was an airplane I hit it 17 times they thought I was going nuts instead of understanding that I was Tom what they didn't go now the 17 times is that how many aircraft oh we got we had heat tend to be antenna or so of our own you know but truth not always we weren't always told alone one shooting there was other Shep shooting no so did you go back and rejoin your ship once it got repaired oh yeah yeah so after your leave at home you went back to San Francisco how long did it take for them to repair the ship oh it probably was less than two months so when you're rejoining the ship did the whole saying crew rejoin hmm you all got back on board and where did you go that well that's what I was trying to remember I don't think we went back out there well anyway eventually we went down and through the Panama Canal and up these coasts and I got off the ship so you went through the Panama Canal twice yeah and the ship came up the East Coast and where did it land Boston is that when you were discharged yeah in the Boston Navy Yard yeah do you know how many casualties there were on your ship during that period time you were there yeah but I I don't know it's in the records yeah you have any memory what was what was your most memorable experience when you were overseas in the Pacific huh I expose it was the plane that's pretty suicide that would be a hard thing yeah suicide planes I mean to come on that yeah it was you know just a plane coming at you and we're shooting the five inches and boom the planes go it's taken care of then one keeps coming and they misjudged turned all of us he passed upside down over the ship and then he dived too because he would knew he was missing but he missed the ship so that was wonder was lucky now had you already you knew about the kamikazes and suicide crashes before you got to Okinawa so you knew the Japanese were doing that yeah so you were prepared for that well yeah you were prepared that it might happen but you hadn't experienced it yeah yeah can you recall any particularly unusual or funny experiences that happen to you well to me it's unusual to to see a guy standing there with his intestines falling out I mean that was where was that that was after the plane hit that was on board your own ship yeah yeah even though one of the pharmacy guys you know who was it was going back you Regina the a boat came out with a couple of wounded Marines I believe this and a so here's the Marine his bottom his ass was all just you know hurt by the explosion or whatever it was it didn't so he's laying on the table and they're working on him and they slid the on the stretcher underneath he's reaching down he can't quite reach that to choke him while he's being worked on huh yeah now I'm gonna ask you some questions about daily life while you were in the service mm-hmm how did you stay in touch with your family when you were overseas by mail were you a good letter writer why well you're limited you couldn't tell them anything that could be as a military used you know so you just spoke about little things you know and then when you did try to use your your own code to your parents they didn't get it yeah did you have good mail deliveries that you could receive mail pretty regularly no it was whenever you happen to be at say it an island and sometimes you can get the mail that way one day I had my heart try and I sat down my meeting and the guy comes in and he sits down God was at me and he says what's that I says I don't know he says what's that I said I don't know I don't know it's the video don't look at the hell did you always have three meals a day on board ship was there a mess hall and you would week one yeah you'd stand in line but down through how about other supplies clothing ammunition other materials that you needed was there any shortage in there did you always have another one well you had your own gear your own sea bag with and you actually had a mattress and a and a hammock that you could string up you slept in a hammock at times but there was bunks on the ship you so you had your clothing but there was a place where you could buy some things one thing you could buy was a carton of cigarettes for 50 cents did you smoke at the time oh yeah yeah and that was right on board ship you could buy those cigarettes or only when you got someone oh no on the ship oh no I remember after the ship was was repaired we went west and we also went to Japan this was after the wall was ended so I made Liberty in Japan and so I bought some silk material and I don't know what anything else we're in Japan Tokyo yeah yeah I wasn't um walking around one day and my and by a park there's a parking Tokyo and I looked over never looks like a hand grenade oh no I guess I better not touch it so I walked away I don't know what it was whether it was a plant there so the Japanese had already surrendered what was the reception like for you Americans how did the Japanese people treat you not too not too bad no no there was a way to call it off Disha hugs a whorehouse I was in there for once so that was an unusual experience yeah yeah so on board you had your bunks what were the sleeping quarters like well most of it was three bunks there was an it those metal things down to bottom and there'd be three spots with metal cover this was yours this was somebody else's and you could keep your clothing and stuff in those you have three bunks one on top and one No you go out on Liberty and you come back and the guy across the next row he's up here and you're down here and he's been drinking and he's throwing up did you always have enough ammunition and the electrical supplies you needed for your work yeah mm-hmm dwell there was one problem every time we shot the guns the mirrors would break so one day I'm shaving and I'm going to the motions of shaving like I would if the mirror was there the dices dummy there's no mirror there did you feel pressure or stress I don't know what you mean well you were in combat when you were at neo G mind when you were up in the Philippines and I'd open our on a daily basis did you feel stressed out no no no just at the times like when you do regime where you could see a hot shell coming into the beam of the searchlight luckily we didn't get hit but yeah that made you kind of dug a little did you do anything special for good luck you know how some people carry a rabbit's foot or that that officers lucky coin no no actually in fact I found another coin and it was from a friend of mine that he got blown away okay now or - yeah yeah did you say both of those coins yeah and they're all I know I gave them to somebody so that it would go to the family you know the owner in both cases yeah yeah what did you do when when you weren't in combat or you weren't patrolling what did you do for entertainment whoa take a shower did you play cards or see movies on board or anything like that sometimes they would play cards once in a while but I never really got involved with that but we had things to do yeah like we had the electrical workshop and was also the mechanics they had lathe and to work benches and new tools and you know so there was things you could do which was more than not usually what we had you know had to do you could shoot the breeze with a couple of guys once in a while they'd play cards on that did you see any USO shows no do you see any entertainers do they ever come aboard your ship no while you were overseas did you get any leave or R&R only on these islands where I told you where we saw the natives and so forth did that that's the only time we what would you do on your date where you would get leave well it wasn't really leave you'd go assuring the boat you do what and then you'd get back and go back to the ship oh so you never got like a week wave or no oh no no no not even a night so you were actually living on board this ship the entire time yes what'd you ever get seasick no no what did you think of your fellow sailors most of them were good it was one that was a thief and we had to you'd hang a close-up by your bunk you know and he tried to get the money in if he had some money out of a wallet you leave in your pant when you took a shower you know thought so we had to explain to him what was going to result he got God on it do you feel that the training you received before you went overseas was adequate yeah no did you make any good friends stayed in touch with in the Navy ah no I I made good friends but I didn't stay in touch with them they were all over the place you know well you might you remember any any guys that you became close with because you were living with these same guys for your entire time in the service so it was like all of you one huge family do you recall any guys that you became particularly no there was one guy his name was elucha s-- Stingley yeah and he was from Mississippi but I never I never saw on that so after you left the service you never saw any of your friends no and I know you did keep a personal diary were you a lot even though they censored your letters you were you allowed to keep a diary or did you do that on your own well did you take a look you you see it isn't very neat so you're just pieces of paper with with dates which talks about your experience that's it that's a great thing wrong that you did keep that yeah well you will writer did you keep a diary when you were a civilian well no you decide you wanted to write these things down I really don't know why but in fact I as I say I can't really read these things now but I made you know calendar and then dated which one direction we were going and where and all that that's valuable for history I'm glad you did that oh yeah yeah what did you think of the officers in the Navy I'm someone good and someone do you recall any specific officers yeah yeah there was one I can't I don't know his name but he was concerned with the belowdecks gang you know the machinist and he was not pleasant it was not a reasonable person so I had a little trouble with him most of the ones you know they didn't they didn't associate with the plain people when you got back to the United States then you went back through the Panama Canal who got discharged at Boston that was in June of 1946 what did you do immediately after your discharge well before I get to that I gotta tell you start now we're in the in the building I it might be called heigl dolphin anyway we get discharged so we're getting examined and so forth so he told us to line up drop your pants bend over now this officer Oh somebody it was crippled he's in a wheelchair thing a powered wheelchair he's checking all the behind know what and then we get discharged and I got to the train station I'm buying the ticket and somebody took my papers left there's yeah another guy and so the next day I went back to Boston and the same building and gave him the papers and he never returned my he never brought mine back that's why I had to get the that's right what did you do after your discharge did you go right back to work well I went home and I I think rather quickly I got a job as electrician working as electrician in Newburyport before the war have you wanted to be an electrician no my father was a carpenter and I was I'd worked occasionally with him so I was geared to a dead direction but then you were trained as an electrician in the service so did you stay working as a fishing for your entire career I worked as electrician I got a license but then I also worked in factories and you didn't need a license and the factories to be an electrician and they worked old some electronics and did you go back to school at all on the G ba GI bill seems to me I went to wash them and I had to remember why I went but it was some education at night wasn't it stay there a day or it was just so so was some kind of night school maybe once a week you know something like that I forgot now why you don't go ahead it didn't last long did you join any veterans organizations after you were discharged I think I did nothing that was nothing that was you know nothing that you're really active with no are you remember than any military or veterans organizations now no have you attended any reunions no I've got a this is the ship I was on this has got a newsletter what one can you newsletter yeah is that ship still in service no but the guys us and when they were stayed in service and it went to Europe and the Mediterranean so forth after the war and so a lot of the guys are I don't know you know you were different times but I get I still get a monthly newsletter [Music] do they ever talk about any of the guys that served during the time you were in oh yeah yeah and they talk about going to reunions and places where there's not morning but stuff like that I haven't been with them you have you haven't been to any of the reunions no do you know where that ship ended up where it is right now it ended up then I probably a Philadelphia or someplace where they dismantle and destroy that's correct yeah John did your military experience influence your thinking about war or about the military in general I suppose it did I I don't I mean to me it was this was that and that was everything there you are I mean it was they didn't do any thinking about it it was just was what was it going on how would you say that your military experience affected your life well it was just uh I learned I learned electrical so that I got an electrical license after I am back and I worked with electrician business in town and then I got some work in factories because I left town and we went to another area and another area another area we wound around the deck how did you end up in Connecticut where you live now we I was I was I had arranged to get a job in Florida I had a job waiting for me I had a tray that we sold out and got a house trailer and we left and we stopped in Shelton in the trailer park yeah there was a lot of jobs at that time you know talking with the people and then we went on to some place in New York I believe it was and I know that a trailer park well we were on our way so I decided to hell with that we turned around he came back to Shelton and then we lived in the trailer and then we rented a house and seeing what I'm shelton then we moved to see more in the apartment and we went to West Haven and we bought a house in West Haven and then we bought this one here so where did you get a job in Connecticut when you turn around and came back Oh international instrument was most of the time and you doing electrical work yeah was a lat electrical lab yeah made instruments so how long have you with things netiquette when did you come probably about 1953 yeah so you've been quite a while yeah John is there anything else any other stories or memories or incidents that you can recall that they haven't asked you about not really no I'm not really you'll think about after I leave well John I'd like to thank for your service and thank you for this interview hmm

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Published: Fri Jun 15 2012