After returning home from the brig, Calvin attempted to go back to school. Instead, he worked as a welder at the age of 14. It was also at that age, he started his first marriage and fathered a child.
[About his time aboard the USS South Dakota and the Battle of Guadalcanal] I took belts off the dead and made tourniquets for the living and gave them cigarettes and encouraged them all night. It was a long night. It aged me... I didn't do any complaining because half the ship was dead.
