01
Feb
The Ship's Tenor
2-1-2021
96 year-old Pat Fedele, the ship's tenor,passed away today. I got to know
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steve
01
Nov
So, it's been a while . . .
Nov. 1, 2020
I’m pretty sure a while back I wrote in one of my posts that I was
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03
Oct
95 and still goin' strong.
10-3-20
Ninety-five year-old USS BOSTON plankowner Thomas R. Williamson is visiting his son David at his
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04
Apr
Another Interesting Guy - Victor Conner
April 4, 2020
Last month I posted about Cloyd Fair, one of the ship’s barbers. He mustered onto the
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25
Jan
Here's an interesting Boston guy.
1-25-20
About a month ago, I got emails and a book order from Brian Fair. His grandfather served
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27
Dec
First Pat, Now John
12-27-19
A few days ago I published two clips from my interviews with Pat Fedele. In the first,
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23
Dec
Interviews
12-23-19
I have hours and hours of interviews from 7 or so years ago. I was working on
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20
Dec
Where were they?
12-21-19
Obviously, not every man aboard the Boston celebrated Christmas. But among the roughly 1500 young sailors (18
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07
Dec
Two years later
12-7-19
Crewmember Diary Entries (excerpts)
December 6, 1943
. . . On entering Pearl Harbor we passed through torpedo nets that
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23
Nov
Thinking about War and how we "see the enemy"
11-23-19
I started recently contemplating “Wars” and how we think about them. What reference points do we use
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