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Building the Bon Homme Richard - Part 1 (Story)

12/31/2018

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My father served in the Navy from 1964 - 1968 aboard an aircraft carrier. Growing up I got to hear stories of his adventures (some I could tell by heart now). I was always fascinated by his photos of the ship he was on (Bon Homme Richard CVA-31), the planes, helicopters, and various ports around the world.  He is very proud of his time in the Navy, and of course we are very proud of him and thankful for his service to our country.  During the early part of his service, my mom had bought him a model of the Bon Homme Richard made by Revell when she visited him in San Diego.  No doubt he appreciated it very much.  At some point after, he started to put it together, but then lost interest. To my knowledge, he’s never been into building models at all, and the sheer amount of pieces and complexity proved a bit overwhelming to him.  Many years later my brother and I found it, and with my dads permission, decided to finish it.  We did an absolutely horrible job. We didn’t know what we were doing, used way too much glue, never painted it, even broke some pieces in the process. We played with it a lot, then it got put away somewhere.  We were young kids and didn’t realize the significance (as my brother would later put it).  It’s a good thing my dad wasn’t into scale modeling, or he might have been a bit upset at how we treated it.  Sadly, that model has been lost to time and long forgotten. My brother barely remembers putting it together with me.  Even I had forgotten about it for a long time.
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