Lt Col Burkart is always with me
When I was 18 years old I walked by the BX at Lackland AFB and picked up a bracelet with William Burkart's name on it. I never took it off and it finally broke, but I kept the pieces. Fast forward about 20 years later and they were selling them again in Italy where I lived. What are the chances I could find his name again. I found his family and sent one to his son and still have the other. In the mean time, I married a Viet Nam vet. Thanks to Lt Col Burkart, my friend and hero that I never met.
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