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Navy ship USS Robert E Simanek named for Korean War veteran from Metro Detroit
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NOVI, Mich. – A Navy ship is going to have a very personal connection to an American hero that lives in Metro Detroit.
Robert Simanek, 90, is a veteran of the Korean War. He said he decided to go into the Marines after high school.
Simanek was the second youngest of four boys born on Detroit’s west side. All of them served their country.
“We felt it was our duty,” Simanek said.
Simanek enlisted in the Marines in 1951. After training, he was sent to Korea to serve as a rifleman and as a radioman. He was 22 years old when in April of 1952 he was asked to do a morning patrol north of Seoul and his squad was ambushed by Chinese troops.
Dr John Morrison (Morris) Brown is a retired Castlederg GP, who celebrated his 80th birthday recently by walking four miles every day for 20 days around the town to raise nearly £8,000 for local charities. He has three grown-up children and three grandchildren. His wife, Marguerite, died aged 57 after an illness.
Q. Can you tell us something about your upbringing?
A. I was born in Bessbrook on January 20, 1941 and my parents were Leonard and Sadie Brown. My older brother, Tom, is deceased and I have another brother, Robin, in Somerset and a sister, Leonora, in Vancouver. I attended Bessbrook Primary School until I was eight, then Newry Model School, where I passed the 11-plus. I completed my secondary education at Newry Grammar School.
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