16. I'll always treasure the memory of being a sideboy for him in 1962.
As a cadet at the USCGA, I was one with clean whites and acceptable height at the end of the summer training cruise on the USCGC Eagle. We were "requested" to come back a few days early from the cruise so JFK (and members of his cabinet) could review the ship. I was the last sideboy on his left. Heads of State get eight sideboys - four on each side of the ladder onto the deck of the ship. It was a kick.
A little over a year later, he was murdered. :cry:
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