Richard Lalonde
I am looking forward to the Eastwind get together planned for June of 2005 in Maine. I have a vcr tape of my fathers tour during operation deepfreeze back in 62-63. I would love to make copies for anyone interested in receiving this video. I would need a check for 25.00 to have it copied and mailed to you. It has great footage of the Eastwinds tour and of my father. I wish he was still with us to tell me about the film and who all the coasties are in it!! I am sure a few good stories would be told. I look forward to meeting any of you who may have served with my dad back then. Happy Holidays Kim Lalonde
12/22/04 Submitted by: kimberley lalonde elementlady@pivot.net
Richard J. Lalonde
I am writing this for my dad who
passed away December 27th 1998. My father was the greatest man I will ever know. He taught me so
much about life and what it has to offer. He
always said you get out of life what you put in. He always said to treat others as you would like
to be treated. He said to me so many great things that we have all either read from a book, or
have heard from someone you know . I will never forget the day my father had his heart attack(
the day after christmas) and changed the way I think and remember him on a daily basis. I have so
many pictures of him, and a great silent vcr video of him while he toured on the Eastwind back in
62-63. My father had told me he was a lighthouse keeper on Bakers Light in Mass, but I never
really became interested in his military background until a few years after he passed. I look at
all the pictures I have and the vcr tape of the Eastwinds tour to many ports of call showing him
and so many other coasties who had also toured on the Eastwind during Operation Deepfreeze. I
realize this is not the traditional obituary you may expect to read, but I did not realize this
wonderfull web-site existed until just last year(2003) I found out more about my fathers
background on this web-site just by sending an e-mail under new arrivals. I heard from a
wonderfull man who knew my dad when he was a lighthouse keeper on Bakers Light back in 1956. I
never knew the year my dad served as a lighthouse keeper until I heard back from an e-mail I had
sent asking more info on when my dad served on Bakers Light. I have also received many
wonderfull e-mails from a few coasties who also knew my dad from the Eastwind. I am sending this
non traditional late obituary announcement to inform anyone who may have served and known my
father during his twenty one year career in the Coast Guard, and to share the knowledge of his
past I have leared from hearing back from a few special people that knew my father until I found
out about Fred's Place. I want to thank-you all who took the time to share a few good memories of
my father. I pray for all the past, present and future military members who have given or are
about to give more to this country than we will ever be able to give back.
01/02/05 Submitted by: Kimberley D. Lalonde elementlady@pivot.net
