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Camp Las Pulgas. I received the call from Kay at around 1200 hrs.—Kay’s message was “ our Baby is here! “ she was calm and very happy. I told her I was on the way. We did not have a unit firing that day and S/Sgt. Fish, the Range NCO in charge , agreed to take over for me. I zoomed home to get Kay who had her bag packed and ready to go—we zoomed back to the Base and the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton, Mainside—Kay was going thru the breathing exercises and so was I!! We arrived at the Hospital after 1300 and the contractions were closer and closer. We got Kay admitted and she was in good hands at the hospital and I was able to be with her—we waited another hour— the contractions eased up and we thought maybe it was a false alarm. I had not had lunch so we agreed that I would run out for a sandwich and hurry right back —which I did. We lived about 20 min. from the Hospital in Carlsbad—I went home—made a peanut butter /jelly sandwich, changed into my ‘civies’ and sat down to eat my sandwich. The phone rang—I picked it up —it was Kay—I said something like “ How’s it going “? Kay was calm and had a smile on her face—I could hear it in her voice—she said “ our baby is here” —-I almost choked—I said ‘WHAT”?!—I couldn’t believe it—our baby had decided to come right after I had left to get my sandwich! After I asked how she and our baby were doing— I said I’m on my way!! Kay said—‘be careful!’ since I had broken the speed limits going to the hospital earlier! At the exact same time—I learned later another Marine Lt. —Sheldon Best and his wife were going thru the same thing—our babies were born at the same time—in the same hospital. Kay and our baby—we named Kimberly Kay—were doing fine—Kay had lost a lot of weight—back then she had
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