Ken Martin:
CLASS OF 1965
Northeast Catholic High SchoolClass of 1965
Philadelphia, PA
Ken's Story
I enlisted in the Air Force in March 66. In 1967, after Southeast Asia, I went to RAF Wethersfield, Essex, England. . Tom DeGregorio, Bob Stacey, and I went to London for a weekend. We checked into our hotel and went on a tour which included Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, and Piccadilly Circus. That night we went to a pub in Piccadilly Circus where there was dancing and, of course, drinking. When we went in the pub, we noticed that the most of the Blokes (as we called the Brits) were at the bar drinking pints and a lot of the Birds (girls) were on the dance floor dancing with each other. We walked around asking for a...Expand for more
dance and the Birds just said no, so maybe their Bloke was at the bar. Then I asked this girl for a dance and she said are you an American, so am I. A conversation brewed and she asked me where I was from, and I replied, Philadelphia. Then she asked what school I went to and I replied, North Catholic. She then asked me if I knew Fr. Knobby Walsh and I stared at her in amazement when I heard the name. I replied that I knew him very well. She then responded with, he is my Uncle. I must have looked like an idiot with my mouth hanging open in utter disbelief. To this very day, I still don't remember what happened after that.
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