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My name is Jeff Smith. I was born in Connecticut. I invested the vast majority of my childhood in Stonington, a tiny, seaside town for the Connecticut-Rhode Island border. My father was a commercial fisherman and given that he was from Norway, existence for the sea was a normal for him. My mother was a housewife. We ended up the normal '50's household. A great deal of my childhood was spent around the docks and fishing boats of Stonington. In 1954, my father and also a number of on the other fishermen decided to attempt their luck at shrimping in Brownsville, Texas. Right after a few months, and very small good results, we returned to Stonington. Most of the Stonington boats had been selling their catches in New Bedford, MA, so it was no shock that in 1959, we packed up and moved. New Bedford remained my household by way of my secondary college several years. I graduated from New Bedford Higher College in 1965. I had the chance to go to university, but I opted to get a hitch inside Navy. In case you recall, at that time, you only had a number of selections: check out university, wait to be drafted, enlist or get married and hope for the very best. Right after an fascinating ten weeks at NTC Good Lakes plus a few of weeks leave, I flew to Subic Bay in the Philippines, to catch my ship, the USS Mansfield DD-728. Our major mission was plane guard duty while using carrier USS Kittyhawk. We also alternated three day assistance fire missions while using the other ships in our group along the Vietnam coast and up the Saigon River a couple of times. A whole lot of excitement for an eighteen year old child. We had liberty calls in Hong Kong, Yokosuka, Subic Bay and Pearl Harbor. In June of 1966 I went to CT (Communication Tech) college in Pensacola, FLA. Upon graduation, I had been sent to Bremerhaven, Germany for two many years or so. Soon after currently being discharged My Photo 65-98from the Navy in 1969, I returned household and met the girl I would find yourself marrying in April of 1970. We have two grown daughters and four grandchildren. We reside in Acushnet, MA., which can be appropriate outside New Bedford. As far as function goes, We've been involved in the textile graphics field ever given that I received out in the Navy. I started out printing hand screens for concert tickets and then obtained concerned with all the making flat bed and lacquer and Galvano rotary textile screens. For that final several a long time, We have been a supervisor inside the Textile CAD department at RothTec Engraving Corp. I get to use state on the art gear and software package. I love operating with pcs. My 1st was an IBM PC-jr. I've graduated to some wireless network using a desktop and laptop. I'm not an artist by any stretch in the imagination, but We've discovered to accomplish points with an image after I get a hold of it. I take pleasure in surfing the internet and being associated with POW/MIA awareness programs for example Operation Just Bring about and Operation Black Flag and producing people aware in the plight of veterans who've health concerns due to their exposure to Agent Orange. There are various great and helpful world-wide-web internet sites available and I want to see as quite a few as I can. You cannot discover should you do not look. |
