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Torpedoman Second Class Raymond L. Starkey served under JFK on PT 109<\/em> and was on the boat when it was struck by the Japanese destroyer.<\/p>\n

\"Raymond<\/a>

Ray Starkey with other surviving members of PT 109 during JFK inauguration. Starkey is 4th from left.<\/p><\/div>\n

At twenty nine years of age, he was older than most of the 109 crew and had a wife and child back in the States. He had transferred off another boat due to the “Ivy League snob” of a captain. However, he liked serving under Kennedy and recalled afterwards that he was “all business, but with a sense of humor and modest and considerate of enlisted me.”<\/p>\n

[127, p. 48]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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