Morey, 95 is at left with Al, age 92, at right, attending the book signing for Maxwell Taylor Kennedy's "Danger's Hour," the tale of a Kamikaze pilot who crippled the USS Bunker Hill during WWII. Al served as a ship-fitter on the aircraft carrier.
The West Seattle Herald attended last week's book signing by Maxwell Kennedy of his documentary "Danger’s Hour," the Kamikase bombing of the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill in May, 1945.
Kennedy, ninth son of Robert F. Kennedy, was here to give a fascinating afternoon to about 60 attendees at Lou Tice's Pacific Institute headquarters on Harbor Avenue.
West Seattle's own famed raconteur, Morey Skaret was there with his sweetheart Elsie.
Al Skaret, Morey's younger brother, was a hero during the suicide attack, rescuing sailors from the fire. He also resides in West Seattle. He served as a ship-fitter which means he and a host of others were expert crewmen trained to fix anything that did not function properly aboard the famed carrier.
The Skaret family, five sons and a daughter were originally from the plains of Alberta, Canada.
