To Dad With Love

Still Missed

Dad was proud to have served his country in the US Navy, especially aboard the USS LCI (L) 35. He enjoyed his Navy experience overall, but he especially liked the "romance and adventure" that his travels would bring. Dad often boasted to family and friends of being in places that "geography" classes could only describe. He valued his experience aboard the LCI 35, where he developed friendships and worked closely with his other shipmates in getting the job done -- a job they did very well without receiving or expecting anything in return. Dad was also fortunate to marry Blondie, the girl he first met and fell in love with before going off to war. During the war he was scared at times, but like others that saw the horrors of war, he just wanted to do his part to protect our freedom and bring an end to the war.

I hope I have honored his memory and accomplished what Dad would have wanted:

"...Do me honor - do but deed, Do proud lineage - do proud the seed..."

Stanley G. Galik ("Dad's" Son)
September 2002