"Remember ladies and gentlemen, you can shoot the stars but I don't want any of you shooting the moon."
CWO4 W.L. Exum, Navigation Instructor, Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Island, February 1982
CWO4 Exum served in the Navy from 1943 to 1985. His service spanned WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War. He was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds received on 17 February 1945 while landing U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima from LCI-457. He had been in the Navy for 2 years and was only 18 years old.
He and his lovely wife Joyce are living happily in Cave Creek, Arizona - close to the loving arms of their daughter Marilyn and her (soon to be) husband Donald.
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