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Millington is home to a Naval
Support Activity not far from Memphis. Besides having one of
the nicest campgrounds we found at any base, it is now home to the Bureau of Naval
Personnel, the Navy Military Personnel Command, and the Navy Recruiting
Command. Gerry had numerous tours of duty at the first two commands
when we were in Washington, D.C. Would you believe that we
reconnected with another Navy couple from our earliest (married) tour in
the Navy, Jim & Karon. We discovered their latest address because
they bought their current home from Jack & Millie. And we have
discovered that we were back in Virginia at the same time years later.
Their daughter Debbie even graduated from high school with our son, Mike,
and Jack's daughter, Susan, was also in their class (of 800-900). It
was fun catching up on lots and lots of years since our last visit.
We also got to see Elaine and Crystal while we
were in Millington. Elaine is the mother of Karen from Jacksonville
- and Crystal. We had met Carl in Louisiana a few years ago, but
this was the first time we met Crystal's son, Richard. Elaine is the
one responsible for getting Gerry back into horses during our first tour
in Corpus Christi.
Gerry enjoyed the golf course at the base,
and we both enjoyed a couple of concerts presented on the grass outside
the clubhouse on two successive Friday evenings. Elaine and Crystal
and family joined us for one of them. Another day Elaine took us out
to Tunica, Mississippi, to see the casinos there. It is quite a
place. There are lots of casinos, but they are scattered across the
country side.
We also spent a day in Memphis on Beale
Street, and later went back to watch the Memphis Redbirds (the St. Louis
Cardinals' farm team) play the Nashville Sounds. Memphis won 9 to 4.
One of the pitchers was called up to pitch for the Cardinals the very next
day.
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