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Nile Kinnick correspondence, September-November 1942
1942-09-25: Page 16
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when they finally retired. The next morning I went to breakfast with a lt. senior grade in the Naval Reserve. He was from Los Angeles and also headed for Norfolk. He was almost as bad as the major. If he had been every place he said he had, known everyone he said he knew, and did everything in the last war he said he did, he would have had to have been 75 instead of 45. I finally managed to get away and settle down with a Time magazine. We passed through Richmond, Williamsburg, and at last drew into Newport News. There we had to take a ferry over to Norfolk - a one hour ride on a boat about like the "Dawn." On the way over I made the error of asking a small, bespectacled individual about the location of the Naval Air Station,
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when they finally retired. The next morning I went to breakfast with a lt. senior grade in the Naval Reserve. He was from Los Angeles and also headed for Norfolk. He was almost as bad as the major. If he had been every place he said he had, known everyone he said he knew, and did everything in the last war he said he did, he would have had to have been 75 instead of 45. I finally managed to get away and settle down with a Time magazine. We passed through Richmond, Williamsburg, and at last drew into Newport News. There we had to take a ferry over to Norfolk - a one hour ride on a boat about like the "Dawn." On the way over I made the error of asking a small, bespectacled individual about the location of the Naval Air Station,
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