Date:         Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:23:01 -0800
Reply-To:     BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Birthday
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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Well, happy birthday, you old fart!


BenT
sent from my electronic leash

On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:43 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> Y'all are very sweet.  I am as it happens still twenty five hours and
> thirty one minutes short of sexegenarianism, but I appreciate the
> sentiments.  As of tomorrow 1252 EST (I was born in the former Naval
> Hospital, now condominia, in Chelsea Mass; so the time zone is the
> same as on the birth certificate) you may expect crotchety
> behavior.  And may I say that I'm entitled - below I quote the night
> letter (wouldn't waste a telegram) the Navy sent my father all of two
> miles away in Charlestown Shipyard.  I seem to have mislaid it, so
> I'll paraphrase:
>
> TO: LT PETER G BEIERL, USS [I forget - a destroyer]
> FROM: NAVY DEPARTMENT
>
> FRANCES E BEIERL DELIVERED OF YOUR CHILD USNH CHELSEA MASS AT 1252
> THIS DAY 5 MARCH 1951 STOP.  MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DOING WELL STOP.  ENDS.
>
> Yours,
> David
> ps - Dad had already heard from the neighbor, so he was a mite
> confused as well.