Well, this year will be five years since I last saw you at the Fitness Center part of the Civic Center in Hammond, Indiana.
I was doing some jogging on the treadmill and you were doing your crunches as you did everyday or all the times I saw you there.
I still get visions of a silly young couple, who were very much in love, as we knew love back than.
Its just a shame that it could not have withstood my enlisting in the Marine Corps, many a day, I hoped that it would have survived.
Visions of you kept me going in Vietnam, because as a leader or Non-Commissioned-Officer, I had very few friends or buddies.
In a way it was better, because if your friends or buddies died or were killed, it would eat you up alive.
So just thinking about you kept me going till I left that hell behind or I thought I had left it behind.
Years later, it would resurface, to the point I had to seek aid to help me deal with Vietnam in my mind.
I was full of anger and I couldn't think that it Vietnam coming out.
Well, like you said, "At least we're still friends" maybe you knew that after Vietnam, most of us would have problems adjusting to what some call a normal life.
Whatever that might be.
I loved you when I was seventeen and I still love you now that I'm sixty-seven.
May God grant you eternal peace we pray.
Another fooliness of an old man, who still is much the Marine he was from seventeen to twenty eight years of age.

Semper Fidelis
Ricardo