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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I remember as a very young toddler getting packages from my dad in someplace called Aniwetok (sp) with local native carved boats etc. I also remember seeing a lot black small hockey puck sized disks on chains. I found out later these were radiation exposure disks. He died in 1971 from a myriad of heart problems and other conditions that never were really adequately explained. I eventually figured out he was part of the H-bomb testing......


4 posted on 08/06/2010 7:03:45 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: Gaffer

“I remember as a very young toddler getting packages from my dad in someplace called Aniwetok”

You might mean Eniwetok. Major Marine battle there and Kwajalein. Feb ‘44 I believe.


22 posted on 08/06/2010 8:47:17 AM PDT by Holen1
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