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A Weissport autochthonous says his instance in the expeditionary was a acquisition experience.

Norman Sutters of Palmerton is a U.S. Navy stager who worked in Navy hospitals in metropolis and Guam.

Sutters attended the time Weissport School, and then the older Lehighton High School on Third Street.

He overturned 17 on Apr 3, 1958, and on June 8 of that assemblage enlisted in the U.S. Navy.

Sutters said he departed from the condition send that was downbound on the Lehighton road to Philadelphia, and from there to the Great Lakes.

“Everything was new, you’re young, you don’t undergo a lot,” said Sutters, 83. “Then when I got to Great Lakes, they gave you clothing, the haircut.”

Sutters said backwards then that if you went in before you were 21, it was titled a Minority Cruise.

“I actually had threesome years, figure months and octad chronicle and got discover digit weeks before I was 21, so I practically had my quaternary eld in,” he said. “When I mitt to go to Guam, I had to analyse in to Treasure Island, and then I got unemployed at Treasure Island.”

Sutters said he went finished base upbringing and edifice at Great Lakes, and then went to metropolis Naval Hospital, where he place 16 months in on orthopedics, half of which he was asked to be the intermixture coreman.

He worked for a student who performed amputations and has pure memories of his instance there.

Next, Sutters was soured to Guam, where he spent 22-and-a-half months, including the Christmastime of 1960 and 1961, where he worked in medicine for over 18 months.

“The period I started in the pharmacy, there was an plane crash, so I did support the identifying crew,” he said.

In between his stay, Sutters went to Nihon threesome nowadays and flew expanse available, which meant if there was an blank grace you flew for nothing.

“It came instance to leave, and instead of them sending me backwards correct absent to the states, I went 10 chronicle to the Naval send and I helped them discover in the pharmacy,” he said. “I got discover March 16, 1962,” a some weeks unsure of motion 21.

Sutters then modified to chronicle backwards in the states, where he worked nearly octad eld at Blue Ridge Pressure Die Casting, and 3½ eld with writer Kresge’s Vending Machines in Lehighton. He then place in 28 eld in UPS, where he loaded, dud and clean trucks.

He took primeval withdrawal at the geezerhood of 60 because his New wife, Sandra, had cancer.

In 2003, Sutters got a employ as a instrumentation utility for Palmerton Community Ambulance from 2003-2013.

After a brief fortuity in between, he has spent nearly the time heptad eld as a traveler with First Northern Bank in Palmerton, where he ease works.

Sutter said he’s worked since the geezerhood of 11, when he started discover on a baker line and went concern to concern for the New Wilbur “Cap” Bauchspies in Lehighton.

As he echolike on his assist to our country, Sutters said he scholarly some chronicle lessons finished his status in the military.

“I change it as a duty; I didn’t undergo what division to go in,” he said. “I am depressing by those boys that came backwards from warfare and they ness on them, it meet chokes me up. That was bad.

“It was a ontogeny experience, it’s conception of life. I was meet fortuitous I didn’t grownup Vietnam.”

Sutters was mated to his wife, Sandra, for 41 eld until she passed absent in 2005. Together, they hit a son, Keith Sutters, and a daughter, Donna Zeigenfuss.

“Life’s been a journey,” he said. “I am a basic Scripture believing Christian.”

U.S. Navy stager Frenchwoman Sutters of Palmerton worked in Navy hospitals in metropolis and Guam. TERRY AHNER/TIMES NEWS