On 9 January 1963, Commander C. R. Anderson, USN delivered a lecture entitled "USSR: Seapower's Challenge" to the Junior Naval War College. Mom just sent a copy of this lecture to me. I plan to soon reproduce it here so that everyone can read it. It is very easy for the young to know little about the recent past and therefore to have little appreciation for what their parents and grandparents lived through and many of the things that shaped their lives. Dad loved his role in the Navy as a protector of American freedom and as a protector of those he loved. The USSR was the primary outside threat to the rights of Americans then and to those of many other people around the world. There were very real dangers that the USSR might begin either a conventional or a nuclear war with the United States and very directly threaten the lives of Dad's wife Betty, his children, and perhaps cut-off the possibility of some of his grandchildren. Dad was not going to allow that to happen.
So, please watch for his lecture to be forthcoming.
Charles R. Anderson, Jr., Ph.D.
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