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Date Posted: Sat, October 22 2011, 17:42:31
Author: Alice Braddy (Searching...)
Author Host/IP: 184-206-240-37.pools.spcsdns.net / 184.206.240.37
Subject: The Last Patrol...

In November of 1986, I was married to a Methodist Minister in Eden, Texas. I heard that a group of Veterans calling themselves "The Last Patrol" were walking/riding from Colorado (I think) to San Antonio, Texas for Veteran's Day, to call attention to the POWs and MIAs...I found out that they were camped on the west side of San Angelo and drove down to meet them. I invited the whole group to stop at the Eden Methodist Parsonage when they came through, to have coffee, food, showers and a little bit of an R & R. They did stop, the whole Patrol, and then went on their way...I took biscuits and coffee to them the next morning at their camp, told them to have a safe trip, and went on my way home. I never heard again from any of them...but if anyone out there knows of anyone in that particular group...I'd like to send a message...I enjoyed the meeting and hope that their lives and their dreams are sweeter now...those that are still on Patrol...and the ones that have gone on - you served well and are at rest...I am the daughter of a career Naval Officer, that went to Vietnam several times, as deployements during his three tours on Guam and I lived there during those three tours. I lived through the Vietnam War as a dependant and remember the stories of people that my daddy knew that went on missions and didn't come back.

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