The camel's nose is already under the tent

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

This Memorial Day I especially honor the memory of Captain William S. Davis, III, KIA (killed in action) 19Sep66, South Vietnam, Capt. Harlow K. Halbower, KIA, 2Jan66, near Saigon, South Vietnam, Capt. Lyn D. Oberdier, KIA 5May68, South Vietnam and Captain Thomas G. Derrickson, II, Missing in Action, North Vietnam. All have their names on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington DC. All were my friends, young men that I bonded with during four tough years at the new Air Force Academy in Colorado. We were three hundred and six enrolled in the first class in 1955 and four years later only two hundred and seven of us were left standing.

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