L-R: Luis Ponton, Rudy Anzaldua and Miguel Anza
L-R: Miguel Anza and Luke Christ
The other day I got a note on email from a man I have been
thinking about for many years. Seems
this guy and several others of us in the 225th got together more or
less regularly at Phu Hiep to have drinks, and the sometimes the food that helps
the drinks go down better, just because we all spoke some Spanish. I had taken 4 years of it in high school
(which was only a couple of years before I got in country.)
Miguel Anza (I think I called him “Mike” in those days) had
been talking with Luke Christ who had told him about this blog. Well, Miguel sent me an email note after all
these years! I was blown away because I
had been recently thinking about him and the other guys, wondering what
happened to them.
Saturday afternoon I was watching an old James Cagney movie
“Captains of the Clouds” (a great 1942 movie, by the way, about the RCAF
training pilots of WWII, in color with some pretty good float plane stunt
flying) when my phone rings with a call from Puerto Rico! It was Miguel! We talked for almost an hour about the 225th,
all about the group we were in, about Joe Beckham and that he and Miguel were
both from Gary, Indiana, and about Miguel and John Dewar, who was in the
Orderly Room, got to Phu Hiep all the way from Boston to Oakland to Nha Trang and
Qui Nhon to the 225th together!
Miguel mentioned that Rudy Anzaldua was in that hospital in
Houston after recently undergoing major surgery. Please pray for our brother as he recovers!
Anyway, our comrades continue to be found! I’m looking forward to seeing Señor Anza, and
many of you all, at the 26th Annual Reunion in San Diego in October.
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