50s Frogs Magazine Vol. 12
Page 10
Email from Wlll Sawyer
Glad to be alive today and to able to pause
and give thanks to those who served The following quote from “These Good
Men” by Michel Norman
pretty much sums my feelings:
I
now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories
or look at old pictures. Not to laugh or weep. Comrades gather because they
long to be with the men who once acted their best, men
who suffered and sacrificed, who were stripped raw, right down to their humanity. I did not pick these
men. They were delivered by fate. But I know them in a way I know no other
men. I have never given anyone such trust. They were willing io guard
something more precious than my life. They would have carried my reputation,
the memory of me. It was part of the bargain we all made, the reason so
willing to die for one another. I cannot say where we are headed. Ours are
not perfect friendships; those are the province of legend and myth. A few of
my comrades drift far from me now, sending back only occasional word. I know that one day even
these could fall to silence. Some of the men stay close, a couple perhaps, per-
haps, always at hand. As long as I have memory, I will think of them all
every day. I am sure that when I leave this world, my last thought of family and my
comrades… such good men.
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Requiem for an IKON!
The Ikon in the midst of frogs on front cover is in row one fourth from left by name Harry
Tindall- Harry, you left like a star falling to earth at
As a
perfectionist, the best example whose mind passed his own traits on to his
men. A true frog that could be only one of two Chiefs in the entire U.S Navy to win that rating in his era. God Bless Him.
Thanks
to
Photo:
Harry at work as pickup man
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