Bobby G. Standlee Participated in Viet Nam Strike Fireman Bobby G. Standlee, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Jenkins of Celeste, participated in the retaliatory air strike operations on February 7, 1965, against North Viet Nam while serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Ranger, operating with the US Seventh Fleet in the South China Sea. Navy aircraft took off form the aircraft carriers USS Ranger, Coral Sea, and Hancock. Of the carrier aircraft, forty-nine attacked Communist barracks and staging areas near Dong Hoi about one-hundred miles north of the border between South and North Viet Nam. Pilots reported seeing heavy fires and smoke and substantial damage to military targets in the area. (February 26, 1965, The Celeste Courier) "I shall not pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Author Unknown