Two Former Navy Shipmates Reunite After 56 Years
Paula Peterson, South Tahoe Now
(SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIFORNIA) July 3, 2022 — The year was 1962, and Orly Larson and David Kramer enlisted in the Navy from their perspective hometowns. Two years later the men met when they were assigned to the USS Belknap DLG26, a brand new guided-missile destroyer. […]
Orly and David served together for two years on the ship, until the end of their enlistments, from 1964-66.
Orly and David hadn’t seen or talked to each other until Orly found his former shipmate recently through Navy social media. They met up this week in South Lake Tahoe for the first time since July of 1966. […]