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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SmoothSail who wrote (184046)	9/30/2009 2:39:34 PM
From: Ken Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

We had our first mortality awakening just a few weeks after graduation. Jack Selby, working for his father in an excavating business, was buried alive in a cave in. Way before the law required shoring to prevent that sort of thing. He was barely 18. Another was killed, driving drunk, later that summer. He was a state heavy weight wrestling champ, but I didn't know him very well. We've lost about half our class over the years. We were fortunate in that we were at an age that had us between the Korean war and Viet Nam, so we didn't have war casualties, although many of the guys enlisted. A few became fighter pilots, etc., but were out of service by the time Viet Nam came along. One of my close friends was a career Navy pilot, but he wasn't a casualty, and as far as I know, he's still alive.