Thank you. It has been since 1979. It never gets easier, just more
distant. It is most difficult when I see how much his boys (33 and 35)
look like him. I think he would be so proud of all his three children.
They are all great adults. I had two boys and one girl. My daughter
never got to know her father. I was pregnant with her when his cancer
was discovered. We were just about to make it when he got ill. He was
enlisted for many years and then got into the NESEP program.this got
him his dream to be an officer. He was a great officer because he
understood being an enlisted man. When he got ill he was a lieutenent
jg. We moved from Charleston to San Diego. We knew almost no one in San
Diego. I am wrting a book about the experience. It ws a difficut time.
I loved that man with all my heart. We were so young, had kids, and
sort of grew up together. It was all too short a time though.

I will pull out his service records and check. You are so kind to
wirte this to me.

Linda