Barbara & I celebrated our 62nd anniversary on March 9, 2022.
We have 13 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren.
I am a member of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - by right of descent. See: http://www.ahac.us.com/
I am a Past Commander General of the Military Order of the Stars & Bars.
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I was in Germany as a military dependent with the Army of Occupation from 1952-1954.
My actual MOS was 988.2663 (Russian language voice intercept operator and transcriber). I served on active duty from 1 Jun 1960 until 18 May 1963.
During my service in the Army Security Agency we wore "unassigned" brass - the Eagle; also we did not wear name tags; accordingly, we really stood out.
My duty/TDY stations with the Army Security Agency in Germany were: Bahrdorf/Heidwinkel (Helmstedt), Baumholder, Frankfurt/Main, Gartow, Jerxheim, Luebeck, Ostseebad Dahme, Rothwesten, Schletau & St. Andreasberg.
Shortly after I arrived at the headquarters of the 319th USASA Battalion at Rothwesten, the linguists were assigned to make a flight aboard the Navy aircraft WV-2Q BUNO 131390 JQ-15 to train in electronic warfare surveillance. I was ineligible to make the flight, because I had not yet received my flight physical. All aboard were killed in a crash that occurred on 22 May 1962 in Bavaria. The affected linguists were:
SP5 Fred Leroy Breshears
SP5 Robert John "Skip" Hoos, Jr.
SP4 Rolland A. Lewis, Jr.
SP4 Edward M. McGreal
I had occasion to visit the Soviet Union (Moscow, Leningrad & Kiev) on business in 1970. In the post-Soviet era (1995-1996) I did work in Moscow and in the Tyumenskaya Oblast in Russia's Asiatic Siberia, working with the Khanty people. My wife's and my last trip to Russia was aboard the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Beijing to Moscow in 2016.
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Membership based on Cpl Nathaniel Roper (5th great-grandfather), who enlisted in the Revolutionary Service on 10 Jul 1776, in response to an emergency call. He served for eight months, mostly at Dorcester Heights. Soon after his marriage, the alarm of Sir Henry Clinton's expected attack upon Newport, RI, enforced another emergency call, to which he responded. He held the rank of corporal and was stationed near Newport from 1 Aug to 16 Sep 1778.