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VETERAN'S DAY 2020
VETERANS DAY 2020
On every Veterans Day, I immediately think of my Dad. He was and is my hero, and he was the founder and inspiration behind our company which he began in 1948.
After graduating from Emory University in 1943, Lindsey Barron joined the Navy and went into training on the Northwestern University Campus in Chicago at the Navy Pier.
His ship was built in Indiana and was named LST Number 587. They rode it down the Mississippi River and through the Panama Canal into the Pacific Ocean and into the war there. Their job was to pick-up Marines and deliver them onto the beaches on islands that became household names.
My Dad was an ensign on the LST and was a gunnery officer in charge of a gun used to protect the ship. He mentioned that one day they received orders to get up at 4:00 a.m.,...