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1 Mon December 14 2009 - 02:29:01 Fullname: Robert W Vetter Rate/Rank: QMSN Email: captvetter@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Brooklyn NY Comments: I was on Valor from the winter of 1967 until spring 1968. She left Charleston for a frame job. I retired in May of 1984. I was QMCS 2 Sat September 05 2009 - 02:41:55 Fullname: Jay L Cross Rate/Rank: BMSN Email: jcross0924@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Pennsyvania Comments: I was on the Valor in 66 until 68 3 Thu July 23 2009 - 21:46:07 Fullname: Peter J Kachur Rate/Rank: YNSN Email: Peterjk22@aol.com Where are your from?: Carteret NJ Comments: Served as ship's Yeoman from 10/1967 to 10/1968 4 Thu September 11 2008 - 07:15:51 Fullname: Eldred (aka O.B.) Bonham Rate/Rank: RM1 Email: ob.bonham@comcast.net Where are your from?: Augusta, GA Comments: Currently living in Catonsville, MD Served aboard the Valor 1956 - 1961. 5 Sat February 23 2008 - 03:52:13 Fullname: Kenneth Lynch Rate/Rank: EN2 Email: Where are your from?: Terrehaute, Indiana Comments: Served on the Valor from commissioning until 1960. Looking for Dick Hodges(CooK).Don't use computer. To contact me please e-mail Paul Mazza at e-mail mazzapaul@yahoo.com 6 Fri February 08 2008 - 19:38:26 Fullname: Eldred S. Bonham (OB) Rate/Rank: RM1 Email: ob.bonham@comcast.net Where are your from?: Catonsville, MD Comments: I was a radioman aboard the Valor from August 1956 till March 1961. 7 Wed October 03 2007 - 10:31:20 Fullname: Harry (Scotty) Burns Rate/Rank: Radioman 2nd Class Email: harry5854511@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Chicago Comments: I served on the U.S.S. Valor from 1962 until 1965. I made 2 Mediterranean cruises and 1 Caribbean cruise. 8 Thu August 16 2007 - 00:53:16 Fullname: KEITH W. WILLS Rate/Rank: ENFN/EN3 Email: GOAZCARDS@AOL.COM Where are your from?: IOWA NOWLIVE IN AZ. Comments: I WAS ON THE VALOR FROM 59 TO 60.I WENT ONTHE BELGIUM/CONGO CRUISE IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND HAVE RELIVED IT IN MY MIND MANY TIMES.THE VALOR WAS A GREAT SHIP WITH AGREAT CREW OF OFFICERS AND MEN. WOULD ENJOY HEARIN FROM OLD FRIENDS. 9 Sun August 05 2007 - 23:51:01 Fullname: W. W. "Mike" Warren Rate/Rank: EN2 Email: usslucid@usslucid.org Where are your from?: Bradford Island, California Comments: Members of the minesweeping community; The Lucid MSO-458 Foundation was formed by a group of minesweeper crewmen who served aboard US Navy MSO's. MSO's are a class of wooden hull oceangoing minesweepers that are now decommissioned and fading from public memory. The group has obtained the USS Lucid MSO-458 and has her docked at Bradford Island, California. Work has begun! The organization is restoring her and a public museum is established. The MSO is a little known and poorly documented, extremely interesting facet of Naval history. The USS Lucid Museum is dedicated to telling the story of the minesweeping men and their wooden ships, the last all wooden US Naval ships, to navigate the oceans. We will be telling the stories of Mine Recovery and UDT teams, Floating Pigs, Hammer Boxes, Magtails, Aluminum Engines and Towed Sonar. The little known stories of Contact, Magnetic and Acoustic minesweeping as well as the mystery of Magnetic Countermeasures will be told through the displays, narratives and museum media. Typhoons, tiny ships and ice-clad superstructures are only a small part of the "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" story. From sweeping the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam, observing the final Nuclear blasts on Johnston Island to sweeping the Persian Gulf, "Where the Fleet Goes, We've Been" will be clearly illustrated. Since there is no other Naval Museum that even attempts to tell the story of the MSO the USS Lucid is an important and living detail of US Naval History. First, Lucid must undergo a restoration. Previous civilian owners for commercial use have modified her. She needs hull repairs and painting and re-outfitting to be brought back to her former Naval dignity and glory. The Lucid MSO-458 Foundation has a workforce of planners, engineers and volunteer manpower who are vested and committed to this grand and worthy project. Bringing her to life is a large financial undertaking. We’re looking for tax-exempt gifts from the Military Industrial sector and individuals to help with this extremely valuable endeavor. Of course, all donors will be properly and prominently acknowledged aboard the vessel. Your donation will help preserve this vital part of Naval History. Please join us in telling the MSO story by sending a tax-exempt gift to Lucid MSO-458 Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit foundation through our website. http://www.usslucid.org 10 Wed February 14 2007 - 17:12:11 Fullname: Paul C. Mazza Rate/Rank: ENCS Ret. (1976) Email: mazzapaul@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Brandon, Florida (Tampa Bay Area) Comments: I served aboard the Valor from 1956-1959 right out of boot camp. I left it at Panama City Florida 1959 as an EN2. Would like to hear from some shipmates during that time. E-mail welcome from all. 1 2
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