The Family

Most families claim to have nuts in their family tree...
our family claims to have an occasionally sane member.

Page Last Updated: 06 April 2007

Some are mentioned only by name, others not mentioned at all.  I used to have a great deal of information (birthdates, children), but with all the concerns over Identity Theft, I've trimmed down greatly.

<>    Of the immediate family, there is my brother James (Jimmy) (older than I by a year and a few months).  Then there's Robert, Christina, and Elizabeth.  This sibling group makes up the core of the family, along with Mama-san, with which that I grew up.  I have two other sisters (half-sisters, if one wishes to be technical... but in this instance I say, "screw the technicalities) that grew up in Florida - Julie & Deborah.   Additionally, both Grandparents on my Mother's side were a great influence.

There have been two other members of the immediate family that have been in the Navy.

During World War II, Grandpa (Robert Palmer)
 
served on USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) (1944 & 1945).

During the Viet Nam "Conflict", my uncle

served on USS Whetstone (LSD-27).  
He also was a member of
Beach Jumper Group One.

My father joined the US Army - but we forgive him anyway (Hi, Pops!)


Pops in 1961

Pops 30 years later

One sister also joined the Army.  She went to Germany in 1996 or 1997, and I haven't heard from her since.
(Oh, Debbie... where are you?)

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