Elizabeth
is my youngest daughter but oldest child with my wife Sally. Elizabeth was born
while I was on the USNS OBSERVATION ISLAND TAGM-23. She was born in the Makati
General Hospital in Makati , Metro Manila Philippines. She loves to sing
and this picture was taken by her mom at one of her performances in 2008. I had
tried to crop the picture to exclude her cousin Symelda but my hand just is not
steady enough and the paint program would not save the original work in JPEG and
the GIF format distorted everything so I decided to go with this as it is.
Due to operations I did not know that Elizabeth was born until 2 weeks after she
was born. She had been born premature by a couple of weeks according to my
wife's doctor.