Kenneth Eaton:  

Shortly after graduating high school I joined the U.S. Navy. I went to Illinois for boot camp and then went to Virginia for my first assignment. It was shore duty and after completed there I went to San Diego, CA to commision a new Navy ship. I rode the ship around through the Panama Canal and brought it to our homeport in Norfolk, VA. After completing my tour onboard the USS Shenandoah I went back to the same place I started off Little Creek Naval Amphibious base in Virginia Beach. I met a nice southern gal while serving there. We have been married for going on 23 years. I had follow on tours on the USS Farragut, USS Thomas C. Hart and USS Briscoe. The Briscoe was the ship that took JFK Jr out for a burial at sea when he died. I have traveled to Spain, France, Italy, England, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Amsterdam and a bunch of places in the Carribean and Arabian Gulf. I got to see alot of the U.S. too. I was on a ship in the Red Sea during the first Gulf ...Expand for more