Semester dos, blog ten

Frankie and Sam Smullin & WWII

Frankie and Sam met at kind of a juice bar where she worked where there were bible verses on the tables. Their courtship was short because he was in the Navy and the war was on. He was going to be deployed and wanted to marry her. So, instead of a wedding gown, I mean the was shortly after the depression, Frankie wore her good blue suit and of course, Sam wore his uniform and for the rest of her life, Frankie delighted in telling the story of her “Good Blue Suit.”

Through the Hatch

After Korea, Sam was still electrical chief on a submarine and he was leaving a port in Asia somewhere and there was a man in a barge who was trying to sell his good to the sailors before they left for the united States. He has these beautiful hand carved chests and Sam wanted two of them but figured they wouldn’t fit through the hatch on the submarine. So he made a deal he said he’s buy them if they fit and the fit, but just barely. My grandmother has on of those chest in her living room.