~ In Loving Memory ~
**NEIL..FTM3: USS TOPEKA...tour in the western Pacific began peacefully, but it was interrupted by the Gulf of Tonkin incident when North Vietnamese torpedo-boats attacked two US destroyers in Aug 1964. The Topeka spent part of the rest of this tour patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin, before returning to the US late in that year. (NOTE: Husband & Wife both died in car accident on same day in Arizona).