Susan Edens
For The New Era
It wasn?t so much a desire to serve his country as a desire to get out of Portland that led Irwin ?Homer? Pack to pester the local Naval Recruiting station for almost a year before his 17th birthday.
Pack, now 81, said after several Pack said after several visits, to the recruiters, he was told he could enlist on his 17th birthday with his parents? permission. So, bright and…