Not exactly "warbird" material but I thought it was interesting enough to pass along. I know most of us watch History Channel with regulaoity, so you'll understand where I'm coming from here....I hope.
I've been having some machine embroidery done on some shirts and have a lovely lady in Winchester, VA doing it. I knew her front name is Helen but didn't know her last name until today. It's Momson. Her grandfather was "Swede" Momson. The inventor of the Momson Lung which was carried on WWII submarines. I'm sure all of you who've watched the History Channel have seen the documentaries of the submarine rescues. She was kinda' surprised that I knew who "Swede" was. I told her that my father was in submarines in WWII and realized that they might have known each other.
My father's sub was SS181 and Momson's was SS192 so with numbers that close, they had to be operational at the same time. Her family and mine also lived in Groton, CT (where they built the subs.) at the same time. She's a little younger than I am (isn't everybody!) but I described the place where we lived and it turns out, she went to the school about a block away. We must have talked for an hour. When we were about to leave, she asked me if I wanted one of the coins made for the commissioning of the destroyer that's named after her grandfather. (DDG92)
I, of course, said I'd love to have one. She then offered a copy of the program that was given out at the commissioning ceremony.
Yeah...I took that, too. It was a real thrill for me to be able to talk to someone who could share not only my memories of WWII but someone who was so closely connected to my father's service experience.
I'm not ashamed to say...it brought a tear to these old eyes.
Mudge the mooshy
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Mudge on Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:44 am, edited 1 time in total.