About 200 years later, our children:

 

     Bill and Charlotte's Children

        Alan, Aaron, and Alison

                     About 1975

 Marshall, Texas when kids were small. At this writing, they are in their low and mid thirties.  Hard to believe!                        

 

 

                     Below: Alan & Aaron; Aaron wearing Charlotte's nursing school uniform.  Cute kids, huh?  I wished they were this small again so I could push them around, beat them up and tell them what to do.  Now it's just the opposite: they push me around, beat me up and tell me what to do!!!

 

                  Proud photos that can never be repeated!

 

Merchant Seaman's Club, Naples 1965

About 6 years later...Recruiting Duty, Corpus Christi, Texas. Taken shortly after I made CPO "Chief" Boiler Technician. Alison, our daughter is just months old. She's 35 now!!!  Do I need a nursing home now or what?>??LP(*&L>M<

                                      

 

Aboard USS Bennington CVS 20 off the coast of Vietnam 1968.  Although I mustered a smile, I wasn't a happy camper, having only been married 3 1/2 weeks then received orders to this birdfarm already in Pearl Harbor loading ammo for duty off the coast of Vietnam.  "Yankee Station":

 

      

 

 

 

About 23 years later, this is Aaron, our youngest son, about 18 yrs old, Marshall, Texas in about 1991.  Once again, I was away from home at sea. This time as a civilian in the Navy's Military Sealift Command.  I turned 50 years old in the combat zone of Desert Storm, serving aboard USNS Henry J. Kaiser T-AO 187:

 

 

 Charlotte E. (Crowell) Sneed.  Taken while she was still in nursing school in Beaumont, Texas.  Humm.  She's still a peach on the beach!!!

 

On a tour in Naples, Italy 1964

 

Taken after a Veterans Day Ceremony Nov 07