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    SF Chronicle: Pearl Harbor vet is given a new sextant to replace stolen one
    From: Paul Saffo
    Date: 2012 Apr 28, 13:24 -0700

    Nice story in today's SF Chronicle:

    Pearl Harbor vet is given a new sextant to replace stolen one

    A Pearl Harbor veteran whose historical teaching aids were stolen out of his truck earlier this month received a welcome surprise when a local man helped him rebuild his collection.

    Michael Mickey Ganitch, 92, used a World War II-era navigational tool called a sextant to teach local students and organizations about how ships navigated the oceans decades before GPS.

    When the sextant and other Pearl Harbor memorabilia were stolen from Ganitch’s pickup truck in San Leandro on April 4, Ganitch was devastated.

    Ganitch served in the Navy for 23 years and was barely 22 when Japanese troops dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor. After the theft, he said he only wanted to see his teaching aids returned so he could keep sharing his personal experiences with younger generations.

    For one Livermore man, though, the theft was inexcusable.

    “It made my blood boil,” said Michael Santos, 39, who comes from a military family. “I have nothing but respect for all people who wore the uniform. It kept me up all night.”

    Santos first wanted to offer a reward for the sextant but eventually figured that the thief was unlikely to return it. He turned to eBay instead and tracked down a Mark II Navy sextant, the same type used on ships during World War II.

    Santos contacted San Leandro Police, who arranged a hand-off with Ganitch. Ganitch was “overjoyed” to have a sextant to keep his teaching going, especially one that was the same model he’d used as a young man. The new one was even “a little cleaner” than the one he’d been using, he added.

    “I’m just so tickled I have a sextant I can use again,” he said Wednesday as he demonstrated how the instrument was used. Sailors could measure the angle between the horizon and various stars or planets to help pinpoint the ship’s location.

    http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2012/04/26/pearl-harbor-vet-gets-a-new-sextant-to-replace-stolen-one/

    And story about the original theft at:
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/10/BA971O103H.DTL
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