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I'm Karl Kristiansen. I became born in Connecticut. I spent almost all of my childhood in Stonington, a small, seaside town around the Connecticut-Rhode Island border. Dad would have been a commercial fisherman and since he was from Norway, life on the sea would be a natural for him. My mother was a housewife. We had been the conventional '50's family. High of my childhood was spent round the docks and fishing boats of Stonington. In 1954, my father plus some of the other fishermen decided to try their luck at shrimping in Brownsville, Texas. After a couple of months, and incredibly little success, we returned to Stonington. Most of the Stonington boats were selling their catches in New Bedford, MA, therefore it wasn't any surprise that in 1959, we packed up and moved.

# New Bedford remained my house through my secondary school years. I graduated from New Bedford Senior high school in 1965. I'd the opportunity visit college, however i chosen a hitch inside the Navy. If you recall, during those times, you only were built with a few choices: go to college, wait being drafted, enlist or get married and hope all went well.

# After a thrilling ten weeks at NTC Great Lakes plus a two weeks leave, I flew to Subic Bay inside the Philippines, to hook my ship, the USS Mansfield DD-728. Our main mission was plane guard duty with the carrier USS Kittyhawk. We also alternated three day support fire missions using the other ships inside our group over the Vietnam coast or higher the Saigon River a couple of times. A lot of excitement with an eighteen yr old kid. We'd liberty calls in Hong Kong, Yokosuka, Subic Bay and Pearl Harbor. In June of 1966 I visited CT (Communication Tech) school in Pensacola, FLA. Upon graduation, I became shipped to Bremerhaven, Germany for two main years approximately. After being discharged My Photo 65-98from the Navy in 1969, I returned home and met the lady I'd wind up marrying in April of 1970. We now have two grown daughters and three grandchild

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