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HAROLD"PICKLE" MELDRUM,WAS ONE OF THE FEW AND LAST GREAT OT LEFT.ON DUTY THE CUTTER"EWING"NEAR NICARAGUA ESCORTING A CONVOY TO ALASKA HE RECEIVED THE MESSAGE IN CODE THAT PEARLHARBOR HAD BEEN BOMBED BY THE JAPANESE AND TO RETRANSMIT THE MESAGE THAT THE US WAS NOW IN THE WAR.HE WAS A GREAT RADIO TECH AND A GREAT TROUT FISHERMEN I ONLY KNEW HIM FOR 12 YRS BUT HE ALWAYS WAS FRIENDLY AND LAUGHING I WAS STRANDED IN THE FOREST HE GAVE ME A LIFT TO AND FROM AND WE STARTED TALKING,WHAT A SMALL WORLD HE WAS A AMATEUR RADIO OPR AND EX USCG CW (CODE OPR.)AND A TROUT FISHERMAN,WHT A GREAT WAY TO MEET A HERO!HE IS GONE NOW,BUT AT REST,IT WAS MY GREAT PLEASURE TO HAVE MET "PICKLE" AND BE A FRIEND OF HIS ,HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST CW OPRS I EVER MET.I WILL MISS HIS SMILE-GOD BLESS YOU.73 SK.
PAUL GENAW