street at night to ensure they The Few, The Proud Facing page: As made it back to their barracks Alabama's only surviving on time. His time in Korea Pearl Harbor veteran, was short, and Davis finished Marine Sgt. Thomas out his tour in Japan before Davis dresses out in returning to Treasure Island in his uniform blues for San Francisco. commemorations; Right: Davis said the best job he’s Davis with his wife of 37 ever had was in Vietnam, years, Lula; Below: Davis accepts a U.S. flag during where he voluntarily enlisted a ceremony last year at to serve, despite the hesitation Bill Nichols State Veterans from his friends. Home. “My buddies told me I was crazy. They said, ‘You’re going to Vietnam to get a damn stripe!?’ I said heck, I survived Pearl Harbor, I can survive Vietnam and then some,” said Davis. “I got my stripe, too.” He continued his work in food service and operated the mess for the general and a few colonels, but he had two maids, two enlisted and the use of the general’s car to pick up his supplies, he said. “I had it made,” added Davis. After returning to San Francisco to retire from the military, Davis met his wife, Lula, and they married in 1980. Having experience in food service, he tried his hand at catering in Laguna Beach, California, for a few years before going into security at the Watergate in California until he retired. When the brother who raised him became sick, Davis moved back home to Montgomery to pay it forward and help out with his brother’s 15 children, nine of whom carried on
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