Good-Bye O.K.

A good neighbor and friend died Saturday morning. His funeral is tomorrow. We were awakened Saturday morning to the knock of an Omaha policeman, asking if we could come and stay with his wife until the mortuary fellows arrived. He wanted to die at home and he did.

O.K. was Oliver Kriss P., one of those best generation fellows that sailed the Pacific during WWII and the Korean war, manning the guns of the Destroyer, USS Brown. He was keen with dates, places and names and for 12 years he organized the Brown's Navy reunions. The Brown had docked in Hiroshima, Japan one month after the big bomb. O.K walked the streets of what remained of that city so shortly after the Enola Gay dropped the bomb that was the end of the war and the beginning of the Atomic Age.

O.K. always had a story ready and enjoyed a cup of coffee with a neighbor, I will miss him a lot.