My Dad,  Ted Lorence and his good buddy Joe Podorski on leave in Honolulu 1943. The story behind this picture is that on first Liberty Ted and Joe hit the Red Light district of Honolulu after stopping off to get this picture taken. On one of there Bar stops a big fat Samoan lady came up to Joe and said "Hey sailor boy I give you this diamond ring if you be my boy friend!" Well with that my father and Joe high tailed it out of there before she beat them both up.    After a night of heavy drinking they retired to a hotel, But they got there a little to late, and most of the beds were taken. Joe managed to find room in a bed but my dad had to sleep on a top bunk hammock that was set up there. Any way, my father kept falling out of it and crashing to the floor. Joe and several other sailors kept putting him back. After several more falls the others were going to put my Dad right back up. But Joe said "hell if we put him back up there he is going to kill himself!" So they left him on the floor. In the morning, my dad woke up a little battered and bruised from hitting the floor so many times from so high up, He said "Some shipmates you are, leaving me on the floor all night like that, hey what happened to my face?"