school navy. ♪♪ larry: jessie followed his career. after he left college and went into the navy, she stayed in touch with him. she had read newspaper stories about morale and issues such as that, so she put together care packages to send to dick and his friends. but jessie beck did everything in a large way. john: it was, “hey there's a package from jessie in the ready room.” larry: there's all these boxes and “take anything you want.” john: cards, cookies. larry: pokerchips, popcorn john: anything that could be shipped. mike: it wasn't just that she was writing checks. she was getting other people involved. operator: “hi may i help you?” mike: she got -- i think it was the telephone operators across the state of nevada -- to get donated paperback books, and they put them in these huge cartons. i mean we had books coming out of our ears, so we started scattering them all over the ship, and when the next box arrived we started scattering them to other ships. larry: dick wrote back and said “this is, you're sending too muc