These are great covers, stamps, and cancellations guys! Now I remember why I collected stamps and covers as a kid.
All this stamp talk set off something in my brain last week. I just spent the last two weeks in Hawaii where I attended the Pearl Harbor Survivor Association 65th Reunion with my father-in-law. Archie was on board the Heavy Cruiser New Orleans on 7 December 1941 and was on watch in the communications bridge when the Japanese attack started. He spent the next short period of time shooting at Japanese airplanes with a Springfield bolt action rifle from the arms locker while watching bombs hit the airfield on Ford's Island and the battleships sink. Archie is what the Japanese call a true "First to Laster," in the war from the first day to the last.
Anyway, while we were at the Arizona Memorial on 7 December 2006 the post office was set up doing special Pearl Harbor canceled covers. I bought a couple and had Archie sign mine. A very special cover for me.
George
