[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and The Mayor family.

Thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

[ErnBatavia]

To this day, I often think about my USMC Boot Camp buddy....we became great pals at MCRD then went our separate ways, due to my MOS and his - he was an 0311...."Grunt". Little did either of us know that as of the end of July, 1966 when we hit the yellow footprints, he had maybe nine months before his curiosity got the better of him; he looked up at the wrong time and got his head blown off.

We were both "two year active" guys who'd enlisted because of the short term, with the promise that we'd be "Women and children first" reservists after that.....it worked out fine for me, but not so well for PFC Frank Joseph Garcia - "small arms fire - April, 1967 - body recovered."