Willie Richmond

[splummer]

It took me years to find his name on the wall because I remembered it as Richardson not Richmond. We had a lot of conversations about why black men had more succeses with women than white men. He was a good 18 year old freind and shared his c-rations with me once when I didn't have any. I remember him and the red smoke and the chopper taking him away 38 years ago as if it was yesturday. Because of a memorial I left to him on the virtual wall years ago, people from the company in 68 have been finding us 30 plus years later. Many of us will see his name and leave a plaque this June at the wall in DC. I bet Willie is looking down and smiling because he brought us back together. I always wished I could have talked to his family to tell them what a nice son they had.