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Show EDWIN CANNON" D' WI D R B R 22 2 l BEC: Yeah. I wanted to ask you about- wh n I read that 1 tt r that th par nt had written to you, asking if he was still alive that just really tore at my heart becau e y u c uld ju t see the desperation. NED: People hold on. BEC: They apparently got a letter from him after they got the telegram. NED: Oh, yeah, that would be evident. Written on the sixth and that happened on the tenth, and heck, they probably got that almost a month later because mail was slow. BEC: Yeah. Hanging on. Did that happen a lot? When this happened did you get a lot of requests like that, "Really, is my son really dead?" NED: No, I didn't. And maybe they did. I don't know how she got my name. Maybe, I think he was attending service and maybe had written and talking about Chaplain Winder, you know. But I would imagine that the commanding officer of the ship, or the Navy Department, would have got inquiries like that from people, because that was kind of standard procedure, which I kind of question. You know, they say "missing" when they're not sure he's dead and so that happened with my cousin, Charles Winder. My aunt, for years, held out hope that he had been taken prisoner, got lost in Japan or something like that. Time zips, doesn't it? Fifty years. BEC: Oh, it does. A lot happens. Well, I wanted to ask you, too, you must have been, you were probably twenty-two or- NED: two. BEC: NED: I went on a mission just before I was nineteen. I would have been twenty- Yeah. And so how was that as chaplain at twenty-two? Talking to other people? No problem. 26 |
