POW Reunion - Dallas

Micah, me, Mom and David at a POW reunion, in about 1998 - My favorite part of that weekend, besieds being with Mom and Dad on such an occasion, was seeing Bill and Janie Tschudy for the first time in about 20 years. Also, I remember the amazed feeling upon seeing (Cdr.?) Stratton in real life, for the first time, after seeing him so many times in a Hanoi released photo taken while he was a prisoner; an amusing, somewhat embarrassing conversation with fellow POW child, Mike McDaniel; Terry just loving being a part of it all; my sense of the unspoken feeling of shared knowledge and experience between the ex-prisoners; watching Return with Honor, for the first time, in a theatre full of men who'd done it; riding a bus with other POWs and their families when a man who had accepted early release got on and the knowledge that he probably felt very out of place; taking a photo of the Alcatraz men (posted previously); men stopping by our table at breakfast in the hotel to say hello and one of them describing how he'd sat in a long line at McDonald's the day before, in order to get a Beanie Baby (a Teanie Beanie, I believe they were called!) from the Happy Meal, for his grand-daughter. Proof that he'd been fully assimilated into American life.