More Roger

Roger would show up occasionally, I assume home on leave from the Navy. His friends would show up, too, in the form of a music band - The New Order. They played at our house a couple times - once outdoors and once in the living room (which was exceedingly loud. I didn't like it, as loud noises bothered me as a kid). They were quite good, as I recall, and I somewhat remember a couple of their songs and can play them on the guitar..maybe.

Mom, Dad, Rita, Dennis, and I would, occasionally, record our voices on a cassette tape and send it to Roger while he was deployed. Sometimes we would sing a song to him. I remember one where we used an existing tune and made up our own lyrics, something about Roger being a sailor. He told us he enjoyed them immensely. I recall that he recorded one of himself aboard ship and sent it to us. Such was communication before the days of the Internet, though it was relatively high tech for the time – being able to hear a voice vs only having a letter to read.