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**NICE PAIR** · 03-01-2019, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by Robby321

But looking that is sad as I found out a good 40 years later that my childhood friend, lost is where abouts when he moved, went diff HS's. He had a hard life, but had a heart of gold. But he was in Nam, not far from me in 2 Corp same time this pic taken. I found out through searching him "virtual wall" what happened. I'll let what I wrote here..Miss ya Stevie...

"I just realized that on the side, me, Dan Kuzniar, and Meredith Hay (Kelly) have been looking and researching a lost old grade school friend, that all of us seemed to lose track of after leaving Hauser and heading to RB. Seems he might have been known by some of you people too. We grew up in Riverside, and his dad was a janitor in one of the big apartments on Forest just off Kimbark, across from my parents. His mother was non-existent (she wanted to give him up for adoption, and lived elsewhere), and his dad was no bargain. I remember he had to go shovel coal in the boiler in the middle of the cold winter nights, and to school a few hours later. After a long talk with his cousin in Tucson, after contacting him from a "Remembrance" on the Virtual wall", I found out his fate. Long story short, his dad at 14 tossed him and all his belongings out in front of his older brothers house, a brother I didn't even know he had. Told him "you take'm" basically, and drove off. His brother and wife raised him, put him through high school in Oak Lawn, and he joined the Army in 1968 or 9, along the same time I did (Aug 68). We were in Vietnam at the same time, close to each other, and never knew it. Of course he was with the "101st Airborne" 327th, the 'Screaming Eagles", and being as athletic as he was, no surprise there. And there he would have received the friendship and discipline he never had as a kid. But bad things happen to good people, and he never made it back to the "world". While some of us were sitting around on Christmas Eve in 1969 "roasting chestnuts on an open fire", he was involved this..someone called in the wrong coordinates, and friendly artillery fire was dropped in killing 12, 9 instantly. Never had a chance. All of my friends have something that I will never forget about them, usually great or unique, and my buddy, my childhood friend, this kid who never really had a chance, was Born on New Years Day, and Killed on Christmas Eve. Quite a stunt from my old friend Steve Pohancek, quite a stunt. May he rest in painless peace.
Ps. Frank Fara. tell Mary, she knew him, and Yvonne Seffer too....(And he was a tough SOB too...)

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Again, "Thank-You"