Comrade Irv Schmidt is scheduled to speak at the Ballard Rotary Club on November 13th. As many of you know, Irv was on the USS California which was sunk on December 7th at Pearl Harbor and went on to become a submariner whose boat sunk the last two Japanese warships in WWII making Irv the only sailor to hear the first and last shots of the Navy war in the Pacific. If any of you are Rotarians and want to make up a meeting in Ballard, it would be a good opportunity to hear Irv discuss what he did on December 7th.
