November 15 1977
This time of year is always a bad time for me. I got out of the CG in sept 1976 so this was a year later more or less. I knew one of those guys pretty well. Ray was killed that night. A couple of days later another friend of ours called me and asked if knew what had happened. Anybody who ever served in life boat stations in the Pacific North West understands what this was like.
"Ya gotta go out, You don't have to come back"