pemHonor My Fatherem is a true story of how college men came to the US Navy as reservists, instructed by the officers from Annapolis, and teamed together. It brings their many personal stories of interactions with my dad Air Defense Commander, serving on two destroyers USS Bancroft USS Goodrich with the naming of their actual crew members. My story honors these silent, humble heroes. ppThirty Benson-class destroyers were built from 1938 to 1943 and were the most vulnerable in the sea, protecting the fleet. The officers and crews earned 174 Battle Star Citations, one Presidential Citation and two Navy Unit Commendations posthumously. ppThe last section of my true story about Dad, emComedy of Adolescenceem describes how as a new professor, working on his Ph.D. this writer entered his teenage years while the two of us moved from the city of Chicago to the small town of Athens, Ohio. After his war experiences, he experienced nothing like the big guns going off in his ear until the hard po