It's been a long time...

I recently located an old Navy friend of mine on the internet. It had been about 10 years since I 'spoke' with him via email, so it was time to attempt another connection.

We haven't seen each other since the early 70's shortly after we got out of the service. He is from the Pittsburgh area, Neville Island specifically...but has been residing in New Jersey and New York for a numbers of years.

We had a few things in common back then. One of which was photography. He is now and has been a professional photographer for a long time. We would have discussions from time to time about certain photographs and argue whether or not a photographic image was actually a 'photograph' or just a 'picture' (or was it the other way around?). We even played in a band together for about 10 minutes while stationed in the Bay area and Hawaii.

One of the other common denominators we shared was the Navy (where we met) and the exotic locales we found ourselves in from 1969 to 1973. After about 14 months of Navy training we both landed, literally and figuretivly, in a patrol squadron in Hawaii. A short while later we deployed (twice) for tours in the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam (among several other Pacific destinations). When it was all said and done...and after more than 2500 flight hours, including about 750 hours of combat flight time...we were mustered out of the Navy and went our separate ways. That's the short short version.

If you get a chance, visit his website...he is a very talented artist...always has been.

Nice to hear from you Edward J. Carr, aka, Eddie, E.J...or just plain Ed...drop me an email from time to time.