04.11.08
Happy 87th Birthday to Don "Pops" Seger. Don is one of the influences
of the founding of this website and one of the most uplifting personalities I
know.
I
just got off the phone with Don to wish him "Happy Birthday" and even
after through all of the medical ordeals that he and his wife have gone through
the past few years, his voice is like a song to me as he remembers so many details
of days on the USS Idaho.
Don is still so in-love with his 'child bride',
Betty.
He told me it was in Guam during during on of the last South Pacific
war campaigns that he prayed to God, "Just get me out of this and lead me
to a 'nice' girl" ... OK, thanks."
He
told me how he met her 8 months after getting off the USS Idaho at a wedding reception,
when it was his duty to pour water in the coffee pot and poured water all over
himself when he first laid eyes on "the most beautiful thing I ever saw",
as he quotes.
He said his heart about 'pitter-pattered itself right out
of his chest! Don also let me know of a short book that is being published of
the experiences he and Betty have gone through in most recent years and has promised
to send to me to be able to share with the USS Idaho 'family'.
Happy
Birthday, Don ... you and Betty are in our thoughts and prayers daily ...
Thank
you for all you have done to get this website up and running.
~
Dave ~
