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9 Sephmber, 1945.
Geography and K!sses Deor Mr. Gonnowoy,
Well, here I om bock in old Cose
ofter spending three very wonderful d
on the "Isle of Copri." Thot ploce is I
the gorden spot of ltoly. One con scor·< - - - - - - - conceive thot such o beoutiful island P'/OLUME X dise exists only o few miles from the
ond dirt of ltoly proper.
A good friend ond. I hit upon the i
Clot hes to and tidy.
always look
fresh
heights thot we ascended along this hig as
way, the whole world looked os though for Mr.
wos below us. The quilt-like patterns Mhe Library stretched out before us contained everear end of ' color of the roinbow and more too; tf Sh t D sight plus the wey the d river of the tru. o r _orl w a s t a k i n g t h o s e s h a r p c u r v e s r e a l l y tcx~on, r e c h r r s t 1 my breoth owoy. Why. even Noples h; Mr. Folie+ o certain beauty about it from this d keeper of tl
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that it really is if he wos just viewir.g of Publrcrty from these dizzy heights. This beouti1also Master ride along this mountainous coos!, ond brary.
wos beoutiful, was reolly impressive.
oives one the concept of how pretty Ita
could be if it were only in the honds
o progressive people insteod of the Ia:
hulks thot inhobit it today.
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It was still bright and sunny when w
arrived in Sorrento, so.ofter mok!ng th *Mrs. Poy arrongements for t~e nrght's lodgrng, W! shored in t th~ught.that we mrght ?s well go for .a were woshed swrm, srnce there wosnt muc!l "lse "
to Guom fol- surrender ceremonies. W e flew to Tokyo
returned
lowing my visit to Jopon •or the formol
in o seoplone on the 29th ond the Admirol broke his flog in the SOUTH DAKOTA. one of our big, new bottleshrps. On the 30th we were oshore inspecting the greot Joponese novo! bose ot Yokosuko. On the 31sl we took o destroyer ond went up the Boy to Yokohomo to visit Generol Mac- Arthur ond to look over thot town. On the first the weother wos terri b le, ond we stoyed oboord ship wondering whot we would do if it roined on the following day. E~~rly on the morning of the second, which turned out to be on overcost doy but with no roin, we went oboord the MISSOURI ond the Admirol shifted his flog to thot ship. I never sow such o distinguished ~~rroy of flog ond generol officers. ond the ship wos looded to the gunwoles.
After oil the guests were in their proper oloces the Joponese delegotes orrived, looking sod but rother sloicol. The cere- mony went off without incident, ond you hove probobly seen the pictures of it by now.
Thot ofternoon we went oshore ogain with two of our Stoff Officers, who hod lived in Jopon for mony yeors ond who spoke the longuoge perfectly, to visit the rurol districts. We hod o grond tour, see- ing en route the greot Buddho imoge ol Komokuro. We olso visited the temple of the Joponese God of Wor, Hochimon. His temple wos pretty deserted on the ofter- noon of the surrender doy, but the little Prior come out to greet us ond wos most cordiol, with much bowing ond hissing through the teeth, etc.
Loter we drove down the coost to Hoyomo where we sow the Emperor's sum- mer poloce. We wound up our teur oboord the Mikoso, which wos Admirol Tojo's flog- ship in the Russo-Joponese Wor. It now rests in concrete ond wos used os a Navol museum. The remoining c oretokers on boord were busy ol thot time moving everything
owey.
The next dey efter e low flight over
Tokyo, we returned to Guom where we ere now getting reody for our move bock t o Pe~~rl H~~rbor o n d f o r o t r i p w h i c h I expect will toke me to New York on Novy Doy.
I hove mony detoils of my visit in Jopon which must woit until I see you personolly ogoin.
Affectionotely,
ARTHUR.
Comdr. H. A. Lamar. USNR, VES '29 United States Pacific Fleet
Staff of Commender-in-Chief.
The Meteor is indebted to Mr. G. B. Lamar for allowing the publication of part of an interesting letter from his nephew, a prominent alumnus of this schooi. - Ed.
of going out Copri way when our bro
onnounced tho! we might hove o few m
days off in the near future, since the --------' called "pressure" was off ond since :;hanges omount of work thot we hod to finish With the Oj the cominq month was slight. Well, fin
the "free" days thot they hod promi_hanges were us did materialize. and believing thot th he w hole sch doys on Copri would be three doys •nside, both spent, we d~cided +o. corry out our orig'vhich has giv
pions and grve Coprr o try. .
On Sundoy mornrng we got up e1 b th
and cough+ o ride as for as Gorib11as een e
Square in Naples. which incidentally Wl!l!v it h asphalt i
but o couple of miles from our starl·o the appear
here we cough! o ride in a British lo I *
and traveled in this "open job" over ,; ean. . dusty rood after another until we arri• The offrce in Pompeii (modern Pompeii), where -,lso. Dr. Bo British truck broke down end we ogoin khanged to tl
to seek further tronsportation. Outs:~ 0 son' Pompeii we cough+ another ride; but r r. ~w time it was in an American truck-bus off~Tlade rnto t ond we were eble to sit down for a chono(lnd the seer This ride took us high into the mounh The famm
point, but it was o start onyhow. Fr nd to makin 1
overlooking the coast.· From the gr~ 1
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Donnell Dovis R Jomes e Edgar E
The "V" I Davis R
Edgor I James Donnell
Lewis I Hop Co" Chorles Lewis ) Williom
Well, when we finoily got to Sorrenl. our secondary destinotion and our port o emberketion to Copri, we received som very disappointing news .. , Yep, no boa' went to Copri on Sundoy; so this left u. stranded in the quoin! and smelly lilt ltolion town of Sorrento. Realizing thai we would hove to spend the night her• if we wonted to get to Capri the firr thing in the morning, we took one of t~ Dogo kids up on his "Wanta' room, Joe? greeting. He took us to o rother nic piece. Here he odded onother four buc~ to his olreody bulging roll. (These lilt' kids often carry o roll amounting to fiv< hundred to o thousand dollors, which the moke by rounding up trade for prostitute and by their vorious bled morket octiv ties).
Honor Co John Mo Lewis M Chorles
/Continued on Poge Eleven.)
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