One of the OG BBS crew.

I signed up for his 1st BASH, had my tickets in hand and time off from work.  

Our youngest daughter was on the kidney/pancreas transplant list at that time and THE CALL came in from Albany Medical Center that she was needed there STAT for a donor match.  Organs were successfully transplanted that night and my daughter was upset that I had to miss the BASH. 

Needless to say I had to call Joe and cancel my travel plans.

I still have two of those hats he commissioned with his Army & Navy Store buddy and were one most days.

Thanks JOE for being a SHIPMATE...Sailor, rest your oar.

A BASH on the Most Coast was a thing of beauty -- if you like to eat and drink.  It was a traveling circus:  VFW, Legion, Elks, and Little John and Patches Pub (the only backyard bar I've seen with 2 or 3 draft beers and no liquor bottles smaller than 1.75)!

Joe and I had mutual acquaintances in the little upstate NY town of Liberty  - but we never knew each other up there.