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Friday, January 16, 2009
I'm going to take a break today from my normal article writing. My usual article consists of some beneficial learning material concerning the reverse mortgage.
Not this time. I had a chat with an individual a couple days back that was just a great experience for me.
Just so you know where I'm coming from, you should know something about me. I'm forty years old and have a love for history. Being a red blooded American I'm greatly interested in twentieth century history.
All I can say is I'm glad I work as a loan officer in the reverse mortgage industry. If I didn't I wouldn't have had the pleasure of speaking to a very important individual yesterday about a reverse mortgage.
We weren't too far from saying our goodbyes when a made mention in passing about where he was stationed in 1947. That was close enough to WWII that I was compelled to ask if he had served.
He, in a very low key manner, said he did and was at Pearl December 7, 1941.
Whooohh Nelly! Now the whole conversation has turned into a little gold mine for me. There aren't many of these guys left.
It gets even better. It wasn't like he was in some obscure part of Pearl. He was actually on the USS West Virginia when it was struck by multiple torpedos. He could hear the whine of the torpedos before they hit.
In one of the explosions from a torpedo he was hit hard and blacked out. In all the confusion in the hours and days thereafter he was listed as dead. And his family was notified.
His family even had a memorial service.
The truth is I wanted to believe this story but needed confirmation. So, I went to the web afterwards and found him. He's even been on a couple Pearl Harbor documentaries.
If you came to this article or blog site looking for good mortgage info, I'm sorry to disappoint. I just had to relate my great phone call with an important man.
From my perspective the reverse mortgage business was the conduit for a shlub like me to speak to the last of a dying bread. It was a great experience.
Not this time. I had a chat with an individual a couple days back that was just a great experience for me.
Just so you know where I'm coming from, you should know something about me. I'm forty years old and have a love for history. Being a red blooded American I'm greatly interested in twentieth century history.
All I can say is I'm glad I work as a loan officer in the reverse mortgage industry. If I didn't I wouldn't have had the pleasure of speaking to a very important individual yesterday about a reverse mortgage.
We weren't too far from saying our goodbyes when a made mention in passing about where he was stationed in 1947. That was close enough to WWII that I was compelled to ask if he had served.
He, in a very low key manner, said he did and was at Pearl December 7, 1941.
Whooohh Nelly! Now the whole conversation has turned into a little gold mine for me. There aren't many of these guys left.
It gets even better. It wasn't like he was in some obscure part of Pearl. He was actually on the USS West Virginia when it was struck by multiple torpedos. He could hear the whine of the torpedos before they hit.
In one of the explosions from a torpedo he was hit hard and blacked out. In all the confusion in the hours and days thereafter he was listed as dead. And his family was notified.
His family even had a memorial service.
The truth is I wanted to believe this story but needed confirmation. So, I went to the web afterwards and found him. He's even been on a couple Pearl Harbor documentaries.
If you came to this article or blog site looking for good mortgage info, I'm sorry to disappoint. I just had to relate my great phone call with an important man.
From my perspective the reverse mortgage business was the conduit for a shlub like me to speak to the last of a dying bread. It was a great experience.
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