I really appreciate your newsletter and I'm hoping it will help me out. I remember at least one or two Marines and usually more from every unit I served in except one.
I spent approximately six months with twenty other Marines going through Basic Electronics School and Radar Fundamentals at MCRD San Diego from early July of 1963 until about Christmas of 1963. I can't remember a single name. Well, that may not be entirely true. I think one of them was named Bishop but I'll be damned if I can remember which one or even if that's correct. We lived together, ate together, spent time together on weekends fishing and various other things. I even rode back from Illinois after Christmas leave with one of the guys and his wife and baby. We headed for San Diego in his 55 Chevy whose odometer didn't work and the speedometer gave up somewhere west of St. Louis. In Amarillo TX the fuel pump took a dump at 0300 and I split the seat out of my trousers someplace in Arizona but we drove straight through and made it back in time to report in before our leave was up. I was able to decipher the name of our instructor (Cpl. Robert Delikat) from his name tag in the class picture and I was able to find him but the names of my classmates eludes me like so many ghosts. The faces are as familiar as if it were yesterday but those names are all a complete blank. Maybe I should try hypnotism.
Would you mind posting the class picture in the weekly newsletter? Just in case someone served with one of them or maybe even one of them stumbles across the picture, I can be reached at LAAM_Marine [at] yahoo.com
Thank you for what you do for all us old Marines and of course the young ones too.
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
Oderint dum metuant
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
–Caligula