It's been more than 40 years since I lost my friend and roommate, Harvey Ross, in Vietnam.
Harvey, along with Vyrl Leichliter, Bob Adams, Donald Osborn, Ron Kolb, Bill Jurich, and Al Simpson, all classmates of mine, died in Vietnam.
Over the years, I have kept some contact with other classmates. Distance has separated us by many miles, so I call on days like Christmas, birthdays, and Veterans Day.
Besides friends of my own generation, from time to time I've added assorted local residents connected to World War II, Korea, and more recent conflicts.