WTF #16: Things I Didn’t Know About My Father
As I prepare to make my final move to China to take up my new post, I needed a place to store of all the junk my family has collected in the basement over the past decade or so we’ve live in the house. What better place than to use my parents’ basement for the job. But before I could move my stuff there, I first needed to help my parents clear out all the junk they have collected over the past several decades. As I was rifling through this and that, I came upon a stack of notebooks. What’s this? US Navy documents? Hmm… And then the next notebook. And the next… And so on. Surface Warfare Officers School Command? This has certainly piqued my interest. For most of my father’s career in the private sector, he was a marine engineer, helping to build huge seafaring cargo vessels. Sometimes,…