USS Long Beach Vietnam Era

"Linda Jo" wrote in message
oups.com...
Thank you. It has been since 1979. It never gets easier, just more
distant. It is most difficult when I see how much his boys (33 and 35)
look like him. I think he would be so proud of all his three children.
They are all great adults. I had two boys and one girl. My daughter
never got to know her father. I was pregnant with her when his cancer
was discovered. We were just about to make it when he got ill. He was
enlisted for many years and then got into the NESEP program.this got
him his dream to be an officer. He was a great officer because he
understood being an enlisted man. When he got ill he was a lieutenent
jg.

And I assume you've got it documented as "Service Connected" through the VA
and are able to use whatever entitlements and benefits you may be eligible
for?

Oh yes, I have been treated very well by the VA. Without their help
with my husband's medical bills I would never be out of debt. I think
the VA was tops with me. This is not a search for money, but rather a
search for cause. I worry about my children and grandchildren. I am
concerned that this might have an inherited pre-disposition to cancer
or neurological disorders. I worry that some day they might get sick.
I don't want anything but answers... no money.. nothing but a reason.
The reason would make sense of the fact that a 33 year old man in top
condition died of a rare cancer in the form of a brain tumor. It is
just something I want to know. Nothing more.