This is not one of my typical articles. Usually, I'm attempting to educate the public about one aspect of the reverse mortgage.
Today we shall do something different. The reason is yesterday I spoke to an individual who absolutely made my day.
About me real quick. I'm 40 and have love for history of all kinds, particularly 20th century history. Of course, the History Channel was my favorite spot until they abandoned their former programming to speculate about UFOs.
Fortunately I'm in the reverse mortgage business. If I wasn't I wouldn't have talked with the man I spoke to yesterday. We talked for at least a half hour about him getting a reverse mortgage.
At the end of the conversation he mentioned where he was stationed back in 1948. That was close enough to WWII so I had to ask if he served during the war. Notice he didn't just tell me...
He, in a very low key manner, said he did and was at Pearl December 7, 1941.
Whooohh Nelly! Now the whole conversation has turned into a little gold mine for me. There aren't many of these guys left.
It gets even better. It wasn't like he was in some obscure part of Pearl. He was actually on the USS West Virginia when it was struck by multiple torpedos. He could hear the whine of the torpedos before they hit.
In one of the explosions from a torpedo he was hit hard and blacked out. In all the confusion in the hours and days thereafter he was listed as dead. And his family was notified.
His family proceeded to conduct a memorial service.
Skeptical me... When I left the call I Googled his name and Pearl Harbor. Sure enough, there he was with story he just told me.
I don't have much of a point here other than it was a great phone call, at least for me. I felt like I had a little brush with history in the form of an American hero.
He was there and could give you a first hand account. He's also a dying breed, and it will be sad when he and those in his generation are gone. - 16928
Today we shall do something different. The reason is yesterday I spoke to an individual who absolutely made my day.
About me real quick. I'm 40 and have love for history of all kinds, particularly 20th century history. Of course, the History Channel was my favorite spot until they abandoned their former programming to speculate about UFOs.
Fortunately I'm in the reverse mortgage business. If I wasn't I wouldn't have talked with the man I spoke to yesterday. We talked for at least a half hour about him getting a reverse mortgage.
At the end of the conversation he mentioned where he was stationed back in 1948. That was close enough to WWII so I had to ask if he served during the war. Notice he didn't just tell me...
He, in a very low key manner, said he did and was at Pearl December 7, 1941.
Whooohh Nelly! Now the whole conversation has turned into a little gold mine for me. There aren't many of these guys left.
It gets even better. It wasn't like he was in some obscure part of Pearl. He was actually on the USS West Virginia when it was struck by multiple torpedos. He could hear the whine of the torpedos before they hit.
In one of the explosions from a torpedo he was hit hard and blacked out. In all the confusion in the hours and days thereafter he was listed as dead. And his family was notified.
His family proceeded to conduct a memorial service.
Skeptical me... When I left the call I Googled his name and Pearl Harbor. Sure enough, there he was with story he just told me.
I don't have much of a point here other than it was a great phone call, at least for me. I felt like I had a little brush with history in the form of an American hero.
He was there and could give you a first hand account. He's also a dying breed, and it will be sad when he and those in his generation are gone. - 16928
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