05-09-2008, 03:18 AM
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Originally Posted by ohiofan I may have mentioned this before, but when I was in the Navy attending sonar school in San Diego I went off base looking for a church to attend and found a really nice one in a quiet neighborhood not that far from the base. I rolled up on my motorcycle and went into Mass and wondered why I was getting a lot of quizzical looks. Turns out the Mass was in Portugese! It must have been a church for the Portugese immigrants to that area from the 1700's. The people there were very friendly and I kept going there until I was assigned to my ship some months later. | Great story Pat!  |
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