keith,
Iwas with your father on the march to ribbon creek, april 8th. 1956, first of all i'm very sorry to hear of your fathers passing, its sorta strange but of all 78 of my fellow recruits i remember just a very few by name,i've listened through the years to different people talk about how un-disciplined we were as a platoon. take my word we weren't any different than any other platoon of raw 17 year old kids. our drill instructor was a drunk and 6 kids[future marines] paid the altimate price,if you have a recruit graduation picture i'm the 6th person in the front row, from left to right. The evening of the march we were playing chicken in back of the barracks,you know the game you get on each others back and try to knock the other guys off, Mckeon got upset over this, but if he had been doing his job instead of drinking non of the events would have taken place.hoping to hear from you. will poole
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