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Tango0130 Mar 2018 11:44 a.m. PST

…. U.S. Navy submarine tender during the Korean War


"Raised on a farm south of Russellville, Missouri, Gene Steenbergen recalls the many years he studied at Valley Home—a one-room schoolhouse that no longer exists. After completing the eighth grade, he transferred to Russellville High School in the fall of 1945, around the time that the Japanese surrendered aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, heralding the end of World War II.

With the worldwide conflict now in hindsight, life in his rural community began to return to a level of normalcy as Steenbergen went on to graduate in 1949. However, the Korean War exploded the following year, placing many recent high school graduates in a position to make a critical decisión…."
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