Dear Diary:
Recently I was touring the carrier Intrepid, now the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, with another shipmate from my carrier, the Lake Champlain, in which we both had served during the Korean War. We were wearing caps with the ship’s designation â€" CVS-39.
A tourist stopped us and asked if were part of the CVS pharmacy chain.
We said no, we were part of a carrier group.
He replied: “Oh, I see. You’re with the air-conditioning company.â€
We finally just walked away.
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