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Harry Truman

College friend

I would have to say it was a favorite high school history teacher. He was a Marine combat veteran who served in Korea. Knowing I wanted to go to college it was an easy decision to join the ROTC program.

Vietnam vets I hung out with

3 older brothers who did the same.

My 30 year warrior father and my Air Force brother!

I didn't know the gift card was Amazon. I prefer to donate my win (should ever I were to win one) to someone who can use it. Sorry.

My Grandfather was a CG Cdr during WWll, a Merchant Marine Master, and the last Unlimited Sailing Master out of the Port of NY. He was my hero.

Who Influenced You To Take The Oath And Join The Military? That would be my Print Shop Teacher, Mr. Dean Dell. We liked each other the first day we met. We had similar backgrounds. We were both the sons of a Printer and grew up around Printing. My High School Major was Graphic Arts, a fancy name for printing. I had two classes of Print Shop each day. The first class was regular Print Shop and I helped Dean teach the class. My second class was Production Print where we did Football Game Programs, imprinted Report Cards, printed various forms for the Office and anything else that came up. I ran that class because Dean had other classes whose Home Work had to be graded, tests written, teaching schedules made, etc. He alerted me to the fact that the Navy teaches job skills in just about any category there is. My first thought was, do they have Print Shops on ships? I love sailing and wanted to be assigned to a ship and not just another Print Shop on a base somewhere. I got what I wanted. A Print Shop aboard the U.S.S. Kearsarge, an Anti Submarine Aircraft Carrier. After they learned my experience in printing, I was running a 7 to 9 man print Shop as an E-3 Seaman instead of the two LI3's and the LI1 who was supposed to be running it. It was fabulous duty. Of the 7 to 9 men in the shop, I trained every one of them and watched 7 of the 9 get advanced.

Bruce Smith