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Saved by the cold I never knew my Grandpa nearly lost his life in WWII, but one day he was telling one of his many stories to my dad and I just happen to overhear him. He was on the USS Missouri somewhere on a foreign coast during the war. His job on the ship rotated every night: one night in the boiler room, the next night outside in the crow’s nest. He switched out every other night with a buddy of his. Well it was his turn in the boiler room one very cold night, but his buddy wasn’t too fond of cold weather, so he asked my Grandpa to switch for the night. A German torpedo hit the ship that night and killed everyone in the boiler room. He sure was thankful and so was his family because he got to come home. Brent M. Wagner, Lexington |
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