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About Samuel Calvin Shrout, ♊
This is a very special profile for me. Samuel Shrout was my dad's best friend for a long time. They were buddies in the Marine Corps. If memory serves correctly, they went to bootcamp at the same time and that's where they met. My dad ended up stationed in Hawaii, and Sam went to war. Story is, Sam robbed a bank in the 1970s because he wanted to pay his child support. My dad supposedly talked him into turning himself in and changing his life around. When I was a kid, Sam was transient, but every so often he'd stop by my father's house in Long Beach, CA to play chess, a game he learned while in prison, and was very skilled at. Sam taught me how to play chess, and I used to think he cheated!
At some point, with being a transient and having many issues, possibly due to war, he became an alcoholic. This was the turning point in the relationship between my father and Sam. My dad chose tough love and then they lost touch completely. My father ended up moving to another state, and I hadn't heard from him since. It was due to extensive digging deep in memory and wondering if Uncle Sam was still around and how he was, that I was dismayed to find that Uncle Sam had passed away in 2008 and had a family-less burial at Riverside National Cemetery. Even though he didn't have blood family, and my dad was angry with him at some point, he was my Uncle Sam and I would have loved to be part of that home-going celebration.
Inscription: US MARINE CORPS
Note: VIETNAM
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Samuel Calvin Shrout, ♊'s Timeline
| 1941 |
April 3, 1941
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Fresno, Fresno County, California, United States
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| 2008 |
March 4, 2008
Age 66
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Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Riverside County, California, United States
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