Re: OT...Day Jobs???

Posted by Hal/WA on October 02, 2006 at 22:15:42 from (66.45.175.118):

In Reply to: Re: OT...Day Jobs??? posted by Ol Chief on October 02, 2006 at 19:41:24:

My Uncle was an officer in the Merchant Marines in WW2 and was the ship's engineer, running the boilers and machinery. After the War he worked for Kaiser for many years. About the last 10 or 15 years at Kaiser he ran their steam plant. In retirement, he was a boiler operator for a local hospital.

My Uncle went back to sea several different times, partly to keep up his boiler papers. At that time, every so many years, Kaiser gave its employees 10 weeks of vacation and during those times my Uncle got a job on a ship and went somewhere, usually flying back from halfway around the world. I don't know just how he got those jobs--I should have asked him, but he sure had interesting stories about his voyages. I also got the impression that he got paid very well each time he went to sea.

He enjoyed his time in the Merchant Marine and travelled all over the Pacific. He met his wife, who was in the Waves in San Francisco and they were married for almost 50 years when she passed. He is gone now too, just like so many of the people who helped win WW2: REAL HEROES!

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