Former sailer leads efforts to help fellow ‘atomic veterans’

Scott Swanson

Fred Schafer was a young Navy seaman in 1962 when his commanders summoned the ship’s crew one day for a briefing while they were in port in Hawaii.

“They told us we’d been selected for a top-secret group,” recalled Schafer, 80, of Lebanon. “We couldn’t tell our folks, we couldn’t tell our families, we couldn’t tell our friends. That was what we were confronted with.”

The fact that they were told the FBI…

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