by hotsey@admin.con2.com
My brother Eugene and I were very close growing up.In 1964 I went off to college and Eugene was accepted into the Air Force Academy.Eugene graduated and was posted to an air wing in the south china sea.At that time the news and letters that we(my family and I) recieved from my brother were generally 2 to 3 weeks behind and very censored.
On Thanksgiving day 1967,at about 3:00 in the afternoon while we were getting ready to sit down to dinner,the front doorbell rang and my father went to answer it.I was just coming up from the cellar with two bottles of wine and I heard myt mother sob and say out loud "oh no,oh dear god no"My father,the Jepsons(our neighbors) and I all rushed into the dining room and sitting at the table was my brother Eugene.We all saw him and although none of us saw him speak,we all distinctly heard him say that he had come to say "goodbye". My mother still swears that
Eugene had somehow told her that he had been shot down overt Laos,and had been killed with his navigator.Twelve days later we were notified by the Air Force that Eugene had been lost in action on Thanksgiving
Day at appx 3:00 pm our time.
My brother Eugene and I were very close growing up.In 1964 I went off to college and Eugene was accepted into the Air Force Academy.Eugene graduated and was posted to an air wing in the south china sea.At that time the news and letters that we(my family and I) recieved from my brother were generally 2 to 3 weeks behind and very censored.
On Thanksgiving day 1967,at about 3:00 in the afternoon while we were getting ready to sit down to dinner,the front doorbell rang and my father went to answer it.I was just coming up from the cellar with two bottles of wine and I heard myt mother sob and say out loud "oh no,oh dear god no"My father,the Jepsons(our neighbors) and I all rushed into the dining room and sitting at the table was my brother Eugene.We all saw him and although none of us saw him speak,we all distinctly heard him say that he had come to say "goodbye". My mother still swears that
Eugene had somehow told her that he had been shot down overt Laos,and had been killed with his navigator.Twelve days later we were notified by the Air Force that Eugene had been lost in action on Thanksgiving
Day at appx 3:00 pm our time.