Here is a picture of, from left to right, Rick Salazar, myself, Stan Perry and Vince Carta after sneaking away for a weekend at home before going to Vietnam. We were in Oakland California waiting for our final departure and decided the hell with it and went home for the week-end. Never were missed and got on a plane sometime the following week bound for the 173rd Airborne who had just landed in Vietnam. These were all friends from California along with Pat Noonan and Jim Howe who I forged a permanate bond with over all these years. Stan Perry and Jim Howe both passed away from accidents after we got back home and out of the service. Stan in a motorcycle racing accident out in the desert and Jim, still being a hero as a LA firefighter, dying in a fire while saving lives. True friends and still missed today by the rest of us that survived Vietnam.
I'll post more pictures as I figure out how to download them.
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