Wayne and I had a mutual admiration for the
Beatles! As such, we became friends
during our junior year at Strahahan HS.
When I would stop by to visit him I'd
always take along a few Beatle records. I
remember that he especially liked the
recordings of "From Me To You" and "There's
a Place".
After high school I lost touch with Wayne.
A year or so later, I heard he had joined
the US Marine Corps. Coincidentally, I
had joined the service myself during that
same period. I remember I was home on
leave one summer when I heard that Wayne had
been killed in Viet Nam.
I think about him often and to this day, I
still have those very same Beatle records I
shared with him way back when.
To the best of my knowledge, Wayne is the
only member of the Stranahan Class of ' 65
to have lost his life in the Viet Nam
conflict.
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