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Our guest this week on Veterans Chronicles
is World War two and Korean War veteran

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Tom Tosky. He served in the
US Navy. Tom, thank you very

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much for being with us. Thank
you for bite me. We just interviewed

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your brother for another episode, so
I know how this first answer is probably

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going to go where were you born
and raised? And north tempton mess you.

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I was born actually in the little
town of hated Bill, Okay,

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and that's where we started. And
then we always say Northampton because it's just

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city, not a little town.
A thousand people, right, And what

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was it like growing up in the
Depression? It was tough. And I

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was brought up, you know,
nine in her family when my father was

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working twenty four seven, and he
was a great dad. He bought us

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all up and I had a lot
of respect to Jimmy Fisher, who's here.

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Mother. She bought us all up. She was a very nice lady.

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Seventeen years old. She took over
when my mother died. I was

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seven years old. She was forty
six, and that's where it all started.

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And she was a great lady.
I've stayed with her. She was

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not up to ninety two and she
because I'm ninety two. Now, who's

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older you were, Bob, No, I'm older. Yeah, but I'm

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always second class. He's important,
he's a celebrity. I'm just peon down

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the roads. Well, you're a
pretty acclaimed teacher yourself. Well, I

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worked hard at I taught myself,
and I am very successful at teaching.

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I still teach. I teach at
the Western Mass Family Golf Center and Hadley

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Match and I also teach at Banyon
k Country Club in West bomb Beach.

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What do you remember about Pearl Harbor
day when the Japanese attacked. Yeah,

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I was riding a bicycle and in
the middle of our little town and somebody

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told me that the Japanese has just
pearl bombed Pearl Harbor. I Pearl Harbor,

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didn't even know where it was,
and they told me that the Japanese

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that was in Hawaii. That's what
I remember. By Were you itching to

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get in the fight? Yeah,
Well, I was a young kid in

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high school and then after after a
couple of years or more, I wanted

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to get into service. Did you
enlist? No? Drafted? I was

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drafted. I was drafted nineteen forty
three, and I still was in the

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in Williamsburg High School. I was
a senior and I been drafted. I

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was going to draft board and my
sister, who Jimmy's mother, said me.

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She says, you tell them you're
still in high school and they will

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defer you. So I went there
and I was standing in line, the

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guy ahead of me getting interviewed by
and the guy says, how you like

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the Navy. He said, I
don't like it. He said I wanted

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to go in the Army. And
the guy said, well, I was

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just going to go in the Navy. Get the hell out of here.

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So I said, well, when
I go in there, I'm going to

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keep my mouth shut. So he
and then I went in and sat down,

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and he says, how do you
like the Navy? I was fine.

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He said, get out of here. You're in the Navy. And

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he did me a favor because I
loved the Navy. Yeah. And I

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had a nice place to sleep,
nice place to eat three times a day.

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Not liking the Army, but it
was a great experience for an eighteen

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year old kid coming out of a
small town of Haydenville. Where did you

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go for training? I went to
Sampson, New York for eight weeks and

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what did what did they teach you
in that train? They just talked telling

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us the basic you know, marching
and you're doing all the calisthetics and and

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you sho rifle. I don't know
why that I was in the navy,

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because I know that they from there. They they sent me uh their home,

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and I went and went back in
and then went went to Philadelphian Avy

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Yard. They shipped me down there, and then what and then I was

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shipped again to Norfolk, Virginia,
the naval base down there, and that's

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where I was assigned to the USS
wilmarth d E. Six thirty eight,

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and that was in Ballejo, California. So we went all the way across

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country with a bunch of sails that
were on my ship, and we picked

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up or destroyer escort in bale Of
California. It was and just just commissioned

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and we all wanted them with a
chip and then went on shakedown cruise down

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in San Diego, went back.
I wasn't a very good sailor a tough

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tough times, but I made it. What was your role on the ship.

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I was in north of Virginia and
this officer come up to me.

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He says, y'are you had a
little talent. We're gonna make you a

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sonar man. I said, says
sonar man. What's that? He says,

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underwater sound for submarines. He wasn't
going to train you, so he

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started me training, going to school
and it takes a lot to get used

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to the you know, the sounds
of the equipment you have. And then

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I went. Then they shipped me, I mean a bunch of our sailors

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uh over the Lly in California.
And when I got there, they had

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enough SNAr man, so I didn't
want the sona right away. It was

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probably three months and they then one
of the uh SNAr man got shipped out

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and I went in took his place. And it was pretty tough the riding

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on there, dee, you know, three hundred men on there, and

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you bounced around like a cork all
the time. It got rough. It

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was tough. How big of a
ship is it with three hundred men?

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That's uh how much he can tell
you he was our one. I don't

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know how long it was, but
took here five minutes to go from one

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end. It didn't take it too
long. It was maybe about three hundred

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uh sailors down that we had.
Yeah, and when did you ship out?

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Uh? Well, I was in
Layoff, Canada forty and then around

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right after January of forty three,
uh forty four, we we shipped out

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and went under the Golden Breave Bridge
and Towaii. From there we went out

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to South Pacific and went in and
stayed out there for two years. Did

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you see Pearl Harbor? Oh,
stayed in Pearl Harbor? Yeah. What

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was it like? Oh? I
didn't spend too much. I saw where

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all the ships were. They got
bombed during Pearl Harbor. Well, what

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I was more interesting? I had
a brother, Jack, and he was

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in Hawaii. So I went to
the Red Cross and they got me contacted

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him when I saw him before I
went overseas. What are you doing in

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the Navy? I said, well, I got drafted and what else do

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you want me to do now?
But he was yeah, of course he

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was. He I hadn't seen him
in three years. So the first thing

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he says to you is not hey, it's great that you're here, it's

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why why are you in the navy? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he

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was dumping me. He thought it
because when I left I was just a

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little kid. Yeah, yeah,
And then of course there was I was

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probably fifteen sixteen years old, and
when I became me eighteen, I got

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drafted. So right, Oh that's
that's great. Yeah. Oh so then

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you went to the South Pacific.
Where did you go first? Well,

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we were a scientists minions Treasure Islands
and the Solomon Islands, and then we

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worked out of there escorting ships around
around the South Pacific. You know that

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we were shown after underwater sound there
was already probably three or four the ease

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circling the ship that it was a
battle wagon or aircraft carriers or or troop

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ships or supply ships and stuff like
that. We were always doing that.

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It varied which whatever it was we
took. We've sailed around. I went

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around the world twice on the South
Pacific. That's so many miles we went.

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Wow. Yeah, what are some
of the commonplaces that you went or

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did it all over the place.
I'm proud of because we we have I

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have five battle stars. I was
in five battles and I was in the

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Solomons. And then we made two
small islands, Asia and Maype Island where

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they were so small that we you
know, we That's all we did was

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to drop off the troops and then
they took over the island because the island

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had raid iron it and was kind
of making contact with our airplanes. So

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they took the islands over. And
from there I went into uh Philippines and

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Lady Gold got caught in the in
the in the harbor, the jabsmately surrounded.

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I just looked at TV the other
day and they had a nice little

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story about that how Admiral Halsey beat
the Navy at the head of Lady Golf

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when they surrounded Lady Golf and we
were inside there and we are we had

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to make smoke and because the torpedobombers
were coming at it every I lucky,

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I think we didn't get hit.
One of our tankers got hit, made

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a big hole in it, and
they had just taken the oil out of

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these oil and then shinct ship.
So then we went from there and we

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got ready to go to Okinawa.
Let's pause right there, Tom, We'll

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to memorialize the sacrifices of their local
heroes. The group has a goal to

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assemble one hundred memorial picnic tables to
place under the park's brand new pavilion.

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So far, they have about seventy
of them put together, and it's been

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done with the help of several community
groups. It costs fifty dollars to have

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a veteran's name engraved into the table. Each one is built from the ground

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up, with much of the material
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us it takes anywhere between forty five
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com. We're back on Veterans chronicles. Honored to be joined today by Tom

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Toski, US Navy veteran of World
War Two and Korea. And Tom,

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you were telling us about the harrowing
experience in ley Tay Golf and then you

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were on your way to Oknawa.
It was later on when they made I

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can tell you today. We landed
on Okinawa April first Easter Sunday, nineteen

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forty five. Yeah, that was
quite a day. Tell me about it.

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Well, we went in there with
the battle wagons. We were screaming

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for the battle wagons for submarines and
they just landed. It was very little

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bit resistance. So we were screening
for the Arkansas battle wagon and then was

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shooting their big guns overrou on the
aisle. And my place when I was

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a sauna man, I learned to
be a sunaman and it was always up

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next to the captain. That's where
I station was. See because once we

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got caught tact with a submarine or
something like that, we took over the

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ship and told the told the captain
what he had to do and he just

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laid it down to his speed and
so forth like that. Well, we

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were screening for the Akassas and the
Akasa kept moving in closer because there was

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no resistance. So we followed it
in and just as soon as that we

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got in there close. I was
up there next to the captain sitting down

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there. I used his binoculars to
look at the what was happening on the

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island. Next thing I know,
there was shells going landing around the Arkansas.

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They didn't hit it. Well,
I told the cabin I said the

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cabin I said, I said,
just shooting at the kissa. He said,

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yeah, I see that. We're
going to get out of here.

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So he started the ship to get
away. Next thing and went whopo right

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by us, and they we took
off. He put it in full score

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feet and when he did, the
shelves were landing on our fantail, not

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hitting the ship, and the boom
going followed us out right out, and

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I was there panting. Next thing
I know, he's on the microphone and

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he says, all right, all
you guys on the fantail, better check

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your skivvies. So doe that.
But then we were sent out to screen

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for the submarines on the island some
way out and with the other ships,

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and we were out there and uh, I'm telling you, you and see

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how bad that was. Cami cousin
were coming in. They were, I

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mean hitting the ships all over the
place, and we were shooting at one

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with our guns and our and the
aircraft guns. And the next thing I

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know, there were here. He
comes. He started at us. Well,

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I'm telling you you never see guys
just get so scared. They were.

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They were jumping from one deck to
the next. And I don't know

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why, but they did it.
And there was one guy was training a

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big gun. He was training and
training and training, and then he saw

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the ship, that airplane guy coming
down. He he was gonna jump over

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the side. And one of the
guys standing there grabbed him, SA get

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back on your sleep. I mean
that's so you never realized, you know,

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until something like that happened. And
it missed us by probably ten feet.

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We were lucky. God will do
us. Of course we had a

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great captain. That guy could remove
the ship so good. And uh I

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was standing in there. Pretty soon
this quarter I signament came up Bob Craig

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and I always remember that, and
he came up. He called me Ski

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because my name was Algustowski. So
I said, yeah, well, by

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what's the matter. He said,
my foot, is something wrong with my

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foot? I said, well,
what'd you do? Is? She said?

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I jumped from from the fly from
the seatle bridge down to the boat

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deck and the ship that the airplane
landed about ten people. So when it

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blew up a rivet a little river
like that that went into his foot.

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So I looked down there and there
it was, and I pulled it out.

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I kept it for a while and
I had lost it. I can't

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believe it. And I told him, I said, now you can get

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a purple heart. I said that
you could get for jumping. And well,

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we stayed there and one of the
sailors aboard ship got a pentaciitis,

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so we had to go in to
the tall where all the ships were anchored.

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There was a hospital ship there,
so they sent us in there with

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him. And that was lucky because
the ship that took our place got collaborate,

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you know, yeah, because there
was seventy and there. So we

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got into a tall and uh and
you can be pully surprised how much uh

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they were. They were even dropping
different the mc couge if you're coming in

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there, and they hit won lst
and we were pretty close to it.

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Probably you know, a mile away, and we went over there to save

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all the sailors because they were jumping
off the ship because the ship was burning

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up. So we went and picked
up those guys, and then the captain

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tried to put out the fire.
When he did, he swung the ship

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about too close and ripped the side
of the ship of our dee put a

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big hole in it. And then
they had sent us to Guam. I

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thought, Bobby, they would send
us to the state, but they sent

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us to Goam instead. Let's pause
right there. Tom will be right back

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on Veterans Chronicles. We are back
on Veterans Chronicles. I'm Greg Corumbus,

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honor to be joined today by Tom
Tosky. He's a World War Two and

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Korea veteran of the US Navy.
And you were just telling us the harrowing

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story of Okinawa, and I keep
going here. You're left us at Guama.

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Yeah, we take us over to
Kawam and that's when they said they

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fixed us up. We stayed there
about a month. I loved it because

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I was playing baseball back and forth
on the dock with a couple of sailors

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and a couple of army guys.
Walked by and I said, Hey,

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where's Apo so and so? They
said, oh, it's down to the

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other end of the island. I
said it. I said, that's when

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my brother. I see my brother, I saw Hawaii. So I got

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a little liberty and I bumped down
it all the way about twenty miles and

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the question pick it up by jeeps
and stuff like that. And I walked

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in and he was sleeping, and
I woke them up. He said,

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what are you going here? I
said, well, we have told them

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what happened. And he says,
how did you get here? I said,

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I bumped. He says, you
crazy, He said, there's still

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Japs on this island. I said, well I made it. The eyes

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were very good. And after that
we we got fixed up and they sent

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us with the third fleet and we
got were the third fleet and went up

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off the coast to Japan to get
ready to invade Japan. Unfortunately, they

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dropped the atomic bomb and two of
them and we were we saved us because

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they they they were the war was
over the side, and we were five

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hundred miles off the coast of Japan
getting ready. You couldn't believe the number

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of ships that was off the coat
getting ready to go in with troop ships,

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tankers, all kinds of stuff was
getting ready to go in. Well,

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we went in. We went into
Yokohama, okay O Bay, and

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then he gave us liberty. Was
so happy, happy to get liberty.

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After two years out of the South
Pacific. We did nothing but just go

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on the island and drink beer.
And just like one kid said, he

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said, Tommy, you know what, we've been out of here so long,

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he says, the natives to start
to turn white. And I don't

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know it because we hadn't seen any
women at all almost in two years.

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Uh, we went That was great. I went over, I had Liberty

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and Yokohama and you couldn't leave.
All that place was devastated. It was

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burnt right down to the ground,
and they dropped or nothing but fire bombs

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because everything was everything was I guess
wood. Yeah, And then we walked

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around, uh for well probably five
from ten o'clock to five o'clock. We

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had to go get back over the
ship. But it were so great to

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just get out and you get off
the ship and seize them. You know,

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they were they were very funny.
But we couldn't we couldn't separate ourselves

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from five. Yeah, we had
to grow on five five guys together because

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they didn't off. You know,
if you were by yourself, you might

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get killed by one of the Japanese
people. So we Yeah, we walked

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there back and forth and was then
and then we were there and about but

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two weeks. Then we got the
big deal go home. Loved that.

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We made a pennant that went from
the fantail all the way up to the

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bridge, big long, We're going
home, and we loved it. We

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went to go back to Hawaii,
did in San Diego, and then they

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descend us to uh to Norfolk,
Virginia lead he went down through the Panama

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Canal and so quickly that but I
was so happy that, you know,

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after two years and eighteen years old, I was now almost twenty one.

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Yeah, and become true with what
would have been I have, I have

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five battle Stars and show for it
and came home and went to Norfolk and

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gave us liberty. And I went
home for thirty days and then we left.

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I got there and got uh discharged. Let me go back to a

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couple of those other battle stars.
You talked a little bit about what happened

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at leat Gulf. I just want
you to talk a little bit more about

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that. When it looked like the
Japanese had you dead to right right right,

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we were just we were caught in
there was we went in with Macarter

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with the ships help you know,
land all the troops and and uh we

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were supporting. We were screening for
oil tankers and supply ships, and we

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got caught here and we had to
keep moving because of the torpedo bombers coming

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there at us at night we could
we had to sleep on our battle stations

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because that there was that for about
five days and we they just bring the

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sandwiches we'd eat and he stayed there
and made smoke. But we ran out

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of smoke. So now they started
to pumping out of their the stacks just

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to keep covered the battle, I
mean, the the supply ships that we

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were screening for, and uh,
well didn't finally even we could see in

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the way off and the lame where
the battle was really taking care of because

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Halsey was up north, came back
down, came back down to the because

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we were screening there and did a
job on the Japanese and they finally took

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off. Yeah, Wow, well
I was. I think the Good Lord

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was with me. Yeah, clearly
multiple times. I'm Catholic. When I

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was an altar boy, and but
I I was drafted. I said,

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my last matter was by the Murphy, and he gave me a sermon to

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the people I had that I was
going in the navy. And I think

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with his you know, being a
nice priest sending me off like that,

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it stayed with me. I think
he took care of me. Did you

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stay in the navy all the way
to the Korean War or did you leave

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it back? No, Bobby told
you all about it his great golfing career.

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I don't have that. But we
both after the war was over and

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came home. My brother Jack in
the golf and we were all going down

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to Miami to play golf and Bobbie
played on the tour. My brother Jack,

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myself and Bobby because Bobby always wanted
to be, you know, on

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the tour, So we went down
and I went down with him because I

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was playing well too. So we
had a lot of problems. So we

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get to Miami and we Bobby was
there and I didn't have enough money,

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so I cady for him. So
he could play, and it was nice

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because I met Jimmy the Merritt and
you were the other guys. And ran

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out of money, so I had
to get myself a job, and Bobby

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went working for the airlines and I
got a job as a general technician or

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just a delivery boy over Miami Beach
and I stayed there for three years.

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And I was staying there and I
wanted to make it. It's money,

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so I said, well, well
how am I going to make some extra

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money? So I rejoined the Navy
and I stayed in the reserves. Well,

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when the Korean War broke out,
that's when they came to me and

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another took all the SHNI man.
I was a SONI man second class,

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and they sent us and they said
you got to come in and train some

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of the kids because you got a
lot of experience. So that's where they

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sent me a board destroyer eight sixty
four USS Ellison up and north of Virginia.

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Uh So I stayed with the ship
and with h I was the training

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training. We trained about five five
kids were just just came in the Navy

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and didn't know much about soner.
So went down there and then if but

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for me, and that that's how
I got I met my wife. I

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met my wife. She was living
in Richmond, Virginia, and the nice

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little southern girl. She was very
beautiful. And I went on the last

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week and this other Polish kidding myself. I went to got a little toxicated,

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and next even know, I was
being woken up on a bus.

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You want to go to nowhere?
I thought, And five thirty in the

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morning he woke me up. He
walked. The other guy says, hey,

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your tickets ran out. I said, where are we? He said,

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Richmond, Virginia, and I met. I went to a dance there

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and I met my wife. And
but that was in the Norobab in January.

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And then I got married in August
of what year? What year I

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was? I was saying nineteen with
the career in nineteen fifty Jimmy Korean War,

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I don't know. I cameray members
well, but I didn't do anything.

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I just stayed there and they sent
me to the Mediterranean. I destroyed

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to train the kids. And when
three months there overseas from the Mediterranean,

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then came back and that's when the
war was clown down. So I had

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enough points to get discharged, and
I planned to get married. So we

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got married while I was in the
Navy, and I didn't want to stay,

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and I probably would have, but
since I got married, I didn't

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want to do that to my girls. I got married and we stayed in

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Richmond. Then then above he got
famous and he said, called me up

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one day, tell me you got
to come back into golf. He said,

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all right. He says, Jack
is taking over North Amptona Country Club.

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And I said fine. I says, uh, uh, let's doe

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what I can do but talk to
my wife. When I talked to him

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into going up home and be with
my brother. And that's how I got

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back into golf. And I'll ask
you some of the same questions. I

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asked him. What is the key
to to you to being a great teacher

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of golf? Uh? You know, it's try I try to be simple,

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don't overdo it. I learned that
by trying to uh you know,

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sometimes you overdo trying to tell him
too much. You have to be I

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found out you have to be very
simple. You just wanted to think that

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they're doing and then tell them to
come back and see you. And I

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enjoyed it and I'm I'm a pretty
good teacher that I worked hard at I

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studied very hard, and I was
I teach up home. Now at ninety

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two, I'm still they still want
me to teach their so at this Western

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mass family golf center owned by the
nice people, and uh, I just

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ye, it just didn't me being
a blood. You know the golfing tskies,

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where do you usually start? Obviously
each player is going to have different

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things they need to work on,
But what's most common is it keeping the

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head down, keeping that The biggest
thing is I had a lamp. I

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was down in Florida this winter.
Bruce Leiche. I don't know if you

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know who. Bruce Lasher is.
Preacher. He's an he won the National

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Amateur tournament. He's sixty nine years
old. And I was on the arrange

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and he come over. He says, you baptizing brother. I said,

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yeah. They always asked me that
everybody, are you baptizing brother? So

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he says, to my, Tommy, can I ask you a question.

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He had a couple other people standing
there every day or talk about teaching,

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and he says, Tommy, if
you have somebody that's not keeping their balance

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in the golf sway, what do
you do first? I said, I

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check their posture. Make me have
good pasture over the ball, because if

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you don't have good posture, you're
you're gonna have to a lot of problems.

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Well, I think he jumped about
five feet off the ground. He

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said, I've asked a lot of
pros. You're the first one that grieved

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with me. That's where I start. I start with the basics, you

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know, uh posture, and I
go into uh the golf swinging a little

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bit at the time, timing and
keeping yourself in balanced all the time.

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They're they're the secrets of playing golf
if you can keep yourself in balance.

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Because so many people swinging they almost
fall down and stuff like that. But

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that's what I just enjoyed teaching that
way. Well, Tom, your legacy

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as a teacher is quite impressive as
well. We thank you for your time

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today. We thank you for your
great service to our country. Thank you.

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I'm just so proud of being in
the service of what I did.

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And if ive battles starts, I
got, you know, they can't take

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that away. And that's how I
feel them. Yep. Outstanding. Tom

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Tosky, US Navy veteran of World
War Two and Korea. This is Veterans

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