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We left Chicago at the bidding of the Navy. My husband was a doctor in the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth for one year and on a ship which spent most of its time in the shipyard there for the second year. I worked on a book of photographs of Antarctic algae for a professor at Old Dominion College in Norfolk the first year - until our son Franklin was born.

    The Navy released my husband after his two years - ten days before his ship left for extended tour duty in Vietnam.  The ship is a floating radio relay station and spends months circling 400 miles in each direction in the middle of Tonkin Gulf.