..... My GQ station was SECONDARY CON, which was on the 01 level. My work station was the Sound Power Shop, which was all the way aft and of course I always heard the planes coming. If they were ever low I had a picture window with the nose of a plane in it.

..... When they sounded GQ I would run through the 01 level. If you remember while running to your GQ station you would run five steps, duck your head and jump through the little hurdle and run five more steps, duck your head and jump through the next hurdle. It sounded like this, dadadadada dada; dadadadada dada; dadadadada dada. You would go through that whole thing that’s looks like the mirror when you look at a mirror and you see these hatches constantly going.

..... John doesn’t come to these reunions. When the ship was in Barcelona, Spain for two weeks John & I hung out for a week and went to Switzerland; France and Munich, Germany. We had a great time we went to Glockenspiel. I was never the drinking type of guy I liked the tours more.