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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [NY IRISH] Veteran's Day, November 11th
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:10:28 -0800


Veteran's Day is coming up shortly and I think it might be good for all
if we could commemorate some of our NY Irish veterans.

In my own family, my grandfather was too old for WW1 and my father was
due to enter WW2 as a Navy SeaBee. I remember him signing up at the
Fordam Concourse Navy Recruiting office across the street from
Alexander's Dept Store. He was 37 yrs of age and had three children.
The war ended a few weeks before he was due to report in 1945. My sons
were too young for Vietnam so I guess we have been a lucky family.

I had an uncle, William Healey, however, who was a gunner in the navy at
Pearl Harbor during the attack. In those days, the gunner sat in the
tail of the prop plane and shot at the enemy. He was based on the USS
Midway and was in the war till it was over. After the war, he came
home, worked at the post office in New Rochelle NY and never mentioned
the war. It wasn't until after he died that my aunt showed me her
scrapbook of his war history. I was amazed.

Please feel free to post about your relatives, your neighbors, your
friends or people you have read about.

--
Pat Connors, Sacramento CA
http://www.connorsgenealogy.com
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