I
did a midshipmen cruise in 1964 out of Newport on an early Forrest
Sherman Destroyer: USS Barry DD-933
(sister ship of
USS Turner Joy
DD-951) now in Bremerton
. We were one of
the Gemini recovery
ships and I was signaled out because I have a rather usual blood type
that is the same as the astronaut's. I'm sure I would have been
shark bait if he needed blood. A third class midshipmen is lower
than the bilge and certainly expendable. The space capsule landed
many miles from us so all we had was a special postal cancellation on
our outgoing mail to remember the occasion. I still have the
postcard I mailed to my mother so many years ago.
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Jim and JoAnn - 2005 Reunion
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