My late husband, Bob Seaver, who was on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II as a naval officer, always felt that the memorial on Pine Boulevard was not very substantial to represent what happened. He hoped it would be replaced with a larger memorial in character with the Civil War and World War I memorials on Pine Boulevard.…
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Robert Badger Seaver: The Badger Bob Seaver was born in Boston in 1924 and spent his childhood summers on Otsego Lake in his grandfather’s camp, Wranglehurst, now called Highview, near Hickory Grove and, for reasons no one knows, across the lake at Camp Chenango. His mother was from Springfield Center and his father was a pilot from WWI who was recuperating in Cooperstown. Bob attended Phillips Andover Academy and Amherst College, graduating in 1946 as an English major, then joined…