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I was drafted during the Korean War.

Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

I grew up in a Navy family.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.