Retired BioMedical Engineer and FAA Quality Control, Design Test Engineer and Program Manager.
The Military section herein turned on the old memory banks.
1. Danny Huria and I joined the Bristol Company L, 43rd Division I at age 15 Danny a year younger (1947)
2. Becker class of 33 was with my cousin Henry Heroux, Watertown, in New Guinea and the Philipines--the Japanese on New Guinea we left to die by their Army so they killed Americans for food. Henry lived for 3 years in the Jungles with Jungle rot--a parasite down to the bone.
Emerick (Jimmy) Kozma was 2 years older than most of us he was class President 3 years. He, Joey Jay (son of Coach Jay) and I tried to join the Marines in 1950--I weighed 118 too light--so we joined the Navy---I was Naval Air, Joey was Dental Assistant, Jimmy was ship Electrician--I spent my last year aboard the USS Yorktown with VF 154 a fighter Squadron and Jimmy kept the Electrical systems of the ship going. We did Liberty together a couple of times--but my best friend and I were no longer the same kids we were in old (really old 1898) THS. I saw him again in 1955 before he departed for Idaho---he died in New Mexico in 2000. Some of his old class never knew Jimmy Kozma, a Hungarian born American as Emerick
I spent 3 months in a Naval hospital in 1951 with a lot of 18 year old Marines from the Frozen Chozen--they paid a terrible price to protect and serve. Semper Fi--all Marines--Semper Fi.
The Internet taught me the great Town we lived in--Terryville (you call it Plymouth) loads of history, Yankee hero, the clock industry, the lock industry.
I have lived below and west of the Mason Dixon Line for 40 or more years great people here--but the heart feels strong for my roots.