2nd Morton reunion in 1999 at Washington DC 35 shipmates attended. |
Below are from the 1st reunion, 1996,
Oyster
Bay Inn Bremerton Washington |
Plank Owners |
42 shipmates made the 1st reunion |
A few pictures from the 1st two reunion, thanks to John Kieft |
Five Morton Skippers. October 2001 at the reunion in San Diego. Left to right: Bill Young (#2), Tom Slattery (#3), Joe Fairchild (#8), Jack McGill (#4), and Al Bell (#15 and final). Photo by Al Creasy. |
From the 1999 Morton reunion of the plankowner officers. Seated left to right: Bill Ryan, Wayne Keele, Steve Drabek, John DeLargy Standing left to right: Jack Felderman, Dick Wilson, Al Creasy |
Capt Tom Slattery with some men of Fox Div |
Some pictures sent in by Cecil T. Chandler who was TM3 on on board 62-66. From the Oct 2001 reunion in San Diego Taken by Bob Groom, FT3. |
top Chandler TM3, Kieft FT3, Groom FT3, last unknown |
, Windham GM1, unknown,
Hammer GMC |
Bob Groom and Tom Chandler telling sea stories |
Cartmill BMSN and
Stamper BM3 and wives |
Brooks TM2
and
Anderson
SKSN and wives |
Sauer SOG3 |
Giamozzi SOG3 |
Chandler TM3 |
Groom FT3 |
Those of whatever generation of Morton who have steamed far perhaps to train or fight
in foreign lands share a common feeling. We know that our greatest comfort
was to have our friends close at hand. Though we consider ourselves
patriots, in the heat of operations at sea, or battle, it ceases to be an idea
for which we fight, or even a flag. Rather, we fight for the man on our
right, and we fight for the man on our left. When navies have rusted and
been cut up for scrap and crews have been scattered to the four winds, when empires
fall away, all that remains is the memory of the precious moments we spent
side by side. Al Bell |