Tommy Hayward and me
Tommy Hayward and me 30 Jan. 2021 I never met Admiral Tom Hayward. Not once. But he was a giant influence in my life. There's no question of that. I'll tell you one of my short tales. I usually don't write short tales, so this is rare for me. It was either late 1982 or early 1983in that timeframe. I had moved my family from Texas to Gulfport, MS, so I could attend my junior and senior years of college at the U. of Southern Mississippi's (USM) Long Beach campus. I had a VA Work-Study grant at the local unemployment office – giving job counseling to out-of-work veterans. I had a vol...