Philip Lang

I know very little about Kenneth "Sonny" Lang. He's my uncle and he died a good 22 years before I was born. I know he was born in 1922 in Canada to my grandfather and his first wife. He was the younger with a sister Lucile "Violet". The story I hear is that their father, my grandfather, came home to the two kids crying on the front step; mom had walked out and abandoned them. At some point Clarence (their father) moved back to Minnesota and at some point after that moved to California where Kenny joined the Navy. I am told he was a Warrant Officer and was very intelligent. He worked on some of the first nuclear power subs and helped write the technical manuals on them. Unfortunately, given what little knowledge they had about the effects of radioactive exposure, Kenny ended up getting cancer. At that time there was next to no treatment for cancer (or his was beyond treatment anyway) and his wife was planning on leaving him. So he ventured out somewhere and took his own life.