“I was associated with the Army long enough to realize I didn’t want to live in foxholes and carry rifles for the rest of my life which included the Marine Corps. I didn’t particularly like the water, so that left the Air Force. I was committed and had all the paperwork filled out to join the Air Force. This was about a year before I graduated from High School,” said Bob.

“I went to Windsor Castle in England and President Reagan and the Queen went riding horses around the castle. He then invited the Queen to come over to California to visit his ranch. He had lunch with her at that one-bedroom ranch house. I wonder what she thought when she saw that,” laughed Cary.

I always had a thing for fish and fishing and we had it all there in Southern California. Along with the Marine Biology I was also taking courses in automotive, bowling, racquet ball along with my chemistry and biology courses. I ended up about 20 credits shy of an Associate’s Degree.

“Korea had started and I went into the military in 1953. I had just graduated from High School. I volunteered for the Air Force. I went to basic at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Boot Camp was more restrictive for me that being hard. I spent about six weeks in boot. From Boot Camp they sent me to Fort Sam Houston. I got my military designation AFSC 902050 as a medic there and trained in the big Hospital at Sam Houston.

“We lived about 20 miles from school so we couldn’t get involved in too much school activities. I was usually off playing in the woods. My brothers and sisters thought they had a bad childhood, I had a fantastic childhood.“

“I remember my brother and I went to the movie and when we got home my daddy told me Japan had attacked us. It was December 7, 1941. I said Japan, shot at us? I was too young to understand what that meant. Japan had shot at us, I just couldn’t believe it. I remember hearing about it on the radio and soon after we were at war with Japan, it was sad,” recalled Sonny.

Yogi was born in Gilham, Arkansas on September 5, 1940. “My parents had four kids, but I am the only one who lived,” said Yogi from his home in Canton. “My dad, Roy, was drafted in the Marines during WW2. He was a farmer in Arkansas on 40 acres. In 1958 we moved to Texas. He got a job with Dew Construction running equipment there,” Yogi said.