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Today's avatar is the ship we sailed back from Japan on in 1958. The USS Gen. William Mitchell. My Dad was stationed there from 1954 to 1958. Mom, my brother and I joined him in 1955 spending a year and a half in Sendai (remember the tsunami) and a year and a half in Yokohama. If we had returned to the US a week later, we might well have sailed by on the USS Gen. Daniel Sultan the ship we took to Germany in 1947. That would have been an amazing coincidence, wouldn't it?