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My name is Peter Hansen. I used to be born in Connecticut. I spent the majority of my childhood in Stonington, a small, seaside town about the Connecticut-Rhode Island border. My father was a commercial fisherman and since he was from Norway, life about the sea was a natural for him. My mother was a housewife. We were the normal '50's family. Much of my childhood was spent around the docks and fishing boats for sale of Stonington. In 1954, my pops and a few from the other fishermen made a decision to try their luck at shrimping in Brownsville, Texas. After a few months, and extremely little success, we returned to Stonington. Most of the Stonington boats were selling their catches in New Bedford, MA, so that it wasn't any surprise that in 1959, we packed up and moved.

New Bedford remained home through my secondary school years. I graduated from New Bedford High School in 1965. I had the opportunity to visit college, but I chose a hitch in the Navy. Should you recall, during those times, you merely stood a few choices: head to college, wait to be drafted, enlist or get wed and hope all went well.

After a fantastic ten weeks at NTC Great Lakes and a two weeks leave, I flew to Subic Bay within the Philippines, capture 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 more the Saigon River a couple of times. Lots of excitement to have an eighteen years old kid. We'd liberty calls in Hong Kong, Yokosuka, Subic Bay and Pearl Harbor. In June of 1966 I went to CT (Communication Tech) school in Pensacola, FLA. Upon graduation, I was sent to Bremerhaven, Germany for just two years or so. After being discharged from the Navy in 1969, I returned home and met the lady I'd wind up marrying in April of 1970. We have two grown daughters and four grandchildren. We are now living in Acushnet, MA., which is right

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