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Reaching out to Strong families

3/3/2014

 
I love opening my email that's attached to the web site.  It's like an Easter egg with great information inside and 99% of the time the message is from a person who had a man on board the Strong DD 467.  The email I opened yesterday was from a gentleman searching for a friend named Hedrick, and he happened upon the web site.  After having a look around, he felt compelled to send a message to the families of Strong and beyond, and it's a message worth sharing.  Below, the tidings of Dr. Robert F. McVicker:

"My father was navigator on a B17 for 28 combat missions over Germany, and father in law was XO of an oil tanker in the Pacific, kamikaze filled theater, both to the end of the war. In an unrelated search for a friend named Hedrick, I found Ensign William Hedrick, the story of the USS Strong, and the recounted memoir of its loss and struggle of the survivors. As the son of a WWII airman, and a descendant of that GREATEST GENERATION, I would request that you please send my sincere appreciation and thank you for their service to any surviving USS Strong crew, and, absent that (my Dad is long passed, and I suspect so have the crew), please relay these tidings to the families of all generations since.

 God Bless America, and all those men and women who defend her.

 Robert F. McVicker MD"

So thank you Dr. Bob.  Come back any time, and thank you for sharing your story.

-Tammi   


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    Tammi Johnson

    Welcome to the blog!  I'm a life long Kentuckian with a degree in Anthropology, thus a nice background in research, thanks to some great profs at the University of Kentucky.  Family and historical research are what float my boat, and this project has been the heart of it for a very long time now.  I welcome input and ideas for blog entries, so if you have something to contribute I'll happily post it. 

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