Rare shot of Ben Piersma's WWI USN Anchor tattoo. He may have entered the Navy at age 19 when USA entered WWI on April 6, 1917. He was not proud his tattoo. As a impressionable young lad I was admiring his tattoo and Popeye's, so he made a great pitch for me to not ever get one. He took me to the sink and started to scrub his tattoo with a bar of Lava soap, soon his skin was all red around this tattoo and said to me, I hate this thing and I can never get rid of it, if you ever decide to get one make sure you will want to see if for the rest of your life, I never have.
