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Larry and I were brothers for 67 years and friends for most of that time. My older brother Stan & I shared the same birthday, July 10th. Stan was 20 years old & I was 14 when Larry arrived just before midnight on July 9th in 1939, the first year Daylight Savings time was in effect. But for that Larry would have shared our birthday. The doctor even tried to have the change the date but the hospital could not. 

I was in my early 20's, riding my motorcycle home from work & was hit by a car. To make a long story short I ended up in the hospital for a short stay & returned home in a body cast for 3 months. I learned to maneuver pretty on crutches & Larry, a cute little guy, took advantage of my plight to antagonize me. We were outside one afternoon when he got to me once too often. I took after him but he ran just beyond my reach and then turned back to laugh at me. I picked up crutch & pitched it toward him. BULL'S EYE! The rubber tipped end of the crutch got him right in the forehead between his eyes. Larry always had a little more respect for me after that.

Lloyd Seehorn

Story posted by nephew, Bob Seehorn; Tue, 11 Jul 2006
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There are a number of stories about Larry and the Coast Guard Academy CGA 

Why The CGA 

My father W.N. Seehorn went to the CGA in WWII. He graduated just before the war ended. He was 17 years older than Larry. 

When Larry was in high school he was a little bit wild and was having conflicts with his own father. My parents agreed to let him live with us. He came to live at our house with the understanding that he had to abide by the rules that my father set down. 

My father set down the house rules just like the Coast Guard sets down the house rules. There were a number of confrontations but the discipline helped Larry mature. When he graduated from high school he decided to go to the CGA because of his admiration for my father. 

The Dinghy 

Larry was always a practical joker. 

It was a trait that did not serve him well when he went to the CGA. 

One of the ideas that helped push him out of the CGA was the time he thought that it would be funny to put the admiral's dinghy in the swimming pool. 

I am not sure what the admiral's dinghy looked like. I think it was a small boat with a sail. Putting in a dinghy in swimming pool doesn't seem like much of a joke until you realize that the swimming pool was indoors so getting this boat inside was quite a feat. He and several of his friends pulled it off. Unfortunately for Larry he did not cover all his tracks so he and his friends were caught. 

The penalty for things like this at the CGA is demerits. Too many demerits and you are kicked out (bilged out) of the CGA. 

The joke put Larry on the edge of bilging out early in the year. He worked very hard to make up for that joke and almost made it through the year but a messy room here and improper salute there resulted in his bilging out of the CGA. 

Proud of You. 

After Larry bilged out he went back to West coast and needless to say he got a lot of negative verbal comments about failing at the CGA. 

It is hard for him and he was dreading what my father would say to him.

He was surprised to hear my father say that he was proud of him. My father told Larry he had gone a lot longer than he had expected. He knew what the CGA was like and he knew about Larry's wild spirit. He was proud of the effort that Larry had put in.