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Bernard F. Flynn
In 1940, Bernard F. Flynn graduated from Boston English High School, the oldest public high school in the United States. In early 1942, he was accepted as an officer candidate in t...view moreIn 1940, Bernard F. Flynn graduated from Boston English High School, the oldest public high school in the United States. In early 1942, he was accepted as an officer candidate in the newly established Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York.
He sailed in deadly waters as a cadet trainee all of 1943 and graduated as a licensed officer in 1944. These ships supplied the war under combat conditions.
He went active duty afloat on a US Navy cruiser in 1945 and left the navy in 1947.
He got married in 1947 and raised eight children, but his youngest died at eight years old from a fall. He was employed as a sales rep in 1947 and became the president of a rope, cordage, and twine firm that he started and ran until 1993.
In 1990, his wife of forty-three years died of ALS. In 1993, he remarried. His second wife of fifteen years died from a massive heart attack in 2008. He presently lives alone in a ten-room house, keeping the home fires burning.
Publishing Credits The author has no other book efforts. However, he has numerous feature articles published after an interview, mostly in the Gannet News chain, local Westchester, New York, journal news. Most of these articles are included in his book, which details his seagoing tales.
He created a twenty-page booklet “Of and about the Class of 1944” which was distributed in 2004 to surviving grads at a homecoming and in fundraising mailings. First it was1500 copies, then another 1000 to the 1945 class. Several of his articles were featured in Memorial Day special editions and senior citizens’ newsletters.view less