Yes you are sadly right- just as with Col. Ned Crossman circa 1939 and one of Jack and Eleanor O'Connor's son as well. I lost two close buddies from the 'Nam Era to suicide, also USMC General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller's only son, a USMC 1st. Lt.- severly wounded and later after re-hab in Bethesda Naval Hospital he O.D.'d on pills- book entitled "Fortunate Son"-

As a Roman Catholic since birth and Baptism, I take that tragic loss of life very seriously, for the Church tells us that no one who takes their own life will enter Heaven. That's what the Church tells us, it also says we can't use Trojans (the latex version, not the economy grade Parker shotguns) when we go hunting poontang. So much for me being a good Catholic. I don't buy that, but as Irish poet John Findley Dunne wrote- "No man is an island--ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee"!!

Out of respect for the memory and the high regard in which I hold the late Captain Paul A, Curtis- and his service to our Country in WW1- I ommitted that detail. I hope you will understand my motive in doing so- RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..