Gale Gow:  

CLASS OF 1967
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Manual High SchoolClass of 1967
Denver, CO

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after high school, let me see, i'm not died so i must not be wanted. i work for the ihop. i did some travel working for them. used to go to the play pen and drink that 3.2 beer their and listen to the sundowners band. got drunk and got arrested for being drunk. that taught me a lesson not to go to jail. my cell mate was a gravy robber!!!GRAZY!!! things got a little hotter and i had to leave and went into the navy. rock on!!!liked the uniform thats why i joined that branch of service. after boot camp, i work at the naval academy for about 4 years with the admiral, james calvert. good people. the mrs. was happy rockerfeler cousin and was able to stay and meet the governor. new york was to big for me. when i got back to the quarters with the mrs. i was glad to be back at annapolis. the governer was nice. about 6 months later i work in dc. at the cno house so one of the persons could go back to PI. that was fun to but hated the mrs. after that i was back in annapolis and again enjoyed the rich girls. had a nice car than too. it was mine in a sense since i kept it for one year. than i had to give it to the real onwner. some rich cuban guy. my dad bosses friend. i stayed there for about 4 years. i left because at that time my mom died. oh well we all must die after birth. after that home was not home. home was not home once i left for the service. i was working down in kingsville tx. i work for a high ranked capt. of comtrawing II, very good duty. however to much time on my hands. i work 4 days a week for 4 hours a day. i went to japan from there and started being a real salor. the best duty i ever had. i went to the francis hammond at first, so i could meet my ship there in hong kong. had a-lot of fun with the shopping, women and all that there is to do there. you have to see hong kong for your self. when i got on my ship we stayed for about 3 weeks there. could not get away from there fast enough. don't get ...Expand for more
me wrong i enjoyed there it just got old. we travel to japan our home port. now since i am japanese disent i really had fun there. stayed there, a total of 4 years in and out of there. ship life is very hard to do because i have been at sea for 7 months strait. that really sucked. we went in a gaint circle in the persian gulf for 7 months. when viet nam died we ancorded out about 35 miles out at sea. that was a mess. at night was pretty because of the bombs exploiding on each other side of viet nam. the outcome was bad and we had to work our butts off. ex-courting the people to what ever country would take them. had to cook for 1500 people per meal. we feed them rice and what ever we could make up like stuff made in a soup. there were two of us cooking only for the people that were on the ships carring them to what ever place. after being on that really made me fell that we should have never gone there in the first place. we could not help them save there country!!! when we left there and got back to normal. picking people out at sea for the next 6 months. that suck. we saved some but i think alot died at sea because they were never seen. i work for the captain of the ship most of my duty on her. went back to shore duty here in the states and left as soon as i could. when i left it still was cheap but when i got back home prices was silly. not to todays prices but silly back then. went back to sea after 1 year and stayed in hawaii for the next 7 years.loved it. had 3 ships out there and came back to the states for my next and last duty station and retired after 21 years of working 16 hours a day at sea. know i'm here in bakersfield, ca. working. well thats my story and i looked back on it and yes i should have done better, love people better but it did not happened. so must live with that. how ever mostly i have the memories. and thats what counts the most to me. take care all and enjoy life. Gale Gow 67"
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