I don’t do “trustworthy” although I believe Race Bannon is telling the absolute truth as far as his memory is concerned.
I deal in proof.
Would you not consider eyewitness testimony as “proof”?
I have read Race’s account of this meeting several times in the past few years. He is extremely consistent, and IIRC, he posted it along with several other details on the “long thread.”
He stated that he and the friends he was with were going to gather some photos of their sojourn in Africa to take back to show this young man because they felt like they would be doing the kid a good deed, but for some reason, that sort of fell by the wayside and they didn’t follow through.
I sure wish they had. Might have made a world of difference if he had gotten closer to this guy.
bam is a consummate braggart. There is no telling what he would have said then, but it might be very interesting to know more about his origins and his stated goal from the perspective of his being just loose and running off at the mouth with some Marines he thought he would never see again.
Race, do you ever wonder what would have happened if you had gone back?