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"Chet"
Once when traveling my friend Matt ended up as an actor in the movie The Thin Red Line. Trust me, this guy is full of stories such as that one. Anyway, the movie is set during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II and a few years later Matt decided that he wanted to meet a few of the very real men who´d fought and survived this grim war.
Enter Chet Thomason - the last survivor of the USS Monssen.
Matt and Chet met at an convention and started talking. Since then they meet up every once and a while, have a few drinks and talk. And boy, does Chet has some stories to tell. But I won´t steal the show here. Instead I suggest that you leave Facebook be for the night and point your browser right here: destroyerhistory.org/benson-gleavesclass/index.asp?r=4360...
Driving back from a lovely day seeing the very best of San Diego, Matt suggested that we should drop by Chet´s home and pay him a visit. I was of course more than willing to.
Chet kindly invited us into his apartment, which was part of a complex where other seniors lived. It was a meeting I´ll never forget. He cracked jokes, told us a few memories from Guadalcanal and agreed to pose for a photo next to a brilliant portrait that shows him giving Frank Sinatra a run for his money.
Chet, if you ever read this I´ll hereby repeat my offer to host you whenever you decide to visit Stockholm, Sweden. I´ll even throw in a few rum and coke drinks.
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"Chet"
Once when traveling my friend Matt ended up as an actor in the movie The Thin Red Line. Trust me, this guy is full of stories such as that one. Anyway, the movie is set during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II and a few years later Matt decided that he wanted to meet a few of the very real men who´d fought and survived this grim war.
Enter Chet Thomason - the last survivor of the USS Monssen.
Matt and Chet met at an convention and started talking. Since then they meet up every once and a while, have a few drinks and talk. And boy, does Chet has some stories to tell. But I won´t steal the show here. Instead I suggest that you leave Facebook be for the night and point your browser right here: destroyerhistory.org/benson-gleavesclass/index.asp?r=4360...
Driving back from a lovely day seeing the very best of San Diego, Matt suggested that we should drop by Chet´s home and pay him a visit. I was of course more than willing to.
Chet kindly invited us into his apartment, which was part of a complex where other seniors lived. It was a meeting I´ll never forget. He cracked jokes, told us a few memories from Guadalcanal and agreed to pose for a photo next to a brilliant portrait that shows him giving Frank Sinatra a run for his money.
Chet, if you ever read this I´ll hereby repeat my offer to host you whenever you decide to visit Stockholm, Sweden. I´ll even throw in a few rum and coke drinks.