Sometimes you see small things that don’t seem to register with you as a child. They are cool, but you really don’t see the significance, until you look back from an adult perspective… Jon Erik Hexum was born in 1957 to a Norwegian father and a mother of Norwegian descent from Minnesota. He lived in a broken…

San Pedro, California, shortly after WWII The Homefront was hard and the United States was still in the throes of the Depression that dogged Americans since the Market crash of 1929. Entry into war ended many things, rampant unemployment the most prominent, but WWII brought new set of problems and deprivatio…

At Point Loma, San Diego, I toured the USS Asheville , a Los Angeles -class attack submarine. While not a public tour, I was able to take photos. You get a real sense of how cramped a submarine is, even modern ones. All the moving parts, machinery, electronics, and equipment make for a very tight environment…