[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Camp Bonifas was renamed in 1986 to honor Captain Arthur G. Bonifas, who had been axe murdered in 1976 during a conflict with North Korea soldiers over pruning a poplar tree.

Ya know that is a new way to go.

Most people exit this mortal coil in the usual ways, heart attacks, sweetart overdose, traffic accidents, walnuts thrown by squirrels, an accidental mixing of Zotz and Pepsi or bludgeoned by exasperated spouses but I dare say he is the only American in history who died in that fashion.

I raise a glass to your memory sir! And if I should ever find my self back in the DMZ I will ask to play a round and stand a round in your honor.

[onedoug]

Ping to the memory of Art Bonifas.

Rick Atkinson, The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

Jack Wheeler, same class, died under mysterious cicumstances, Washington DC.

Thirty other members killed in Vietnam.

RIP, All....