A good friend swears the reason he has all sons and no daughters is due to his high-fat diet when he was in his twenties.
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Might be some truth there. ....I was born 9 months after Pearl Harbor in Dallas. In ‘43, folks bought a new house in WSW portion of Dallas and, with GM who lived with us, set about putting in a large Victory Garden.
I grew up helping in the garden, which had numerous fruit trees, berries, beans, turnips, carrots, tomatoes, etc. Our meals always had lots of vegetables and a little meat/poultry.
At 18 I went on active duty in the Navy and fell in love with the chow that provided LOTS of meat at each meal. I was flight deck crew (catapults), so got front of the line privileges 24 hours/day.
Married at age 20 and daughter was born early ‘64. Vasectomy in ‘74 and Dr. said I had very low sperm count. That perhaps explains why no other kids and is possibly the result of eating mostly from that Victory Garden the first 18 years of my life.
I was also flight deck - fuels. When were you assigned and what ship[s]? I was on a LPD and then LPH-11.