Hello Richard, after reading that you did not want to be called Dick, all of us guys at McChord called you that for ever. I retrained to calling you Richard when we came down to Yuma all of those winters. We sure did have a good time each winter walking and doing the desert in the buggy.
We had good times waxing our cars at the base park at McChord and of course a beer or two. Another time was when i was trying to water ski and did not make it.
I remember when pay days came in the service and we would all go to a pizza place just off base and we would order a large pizza each and a pitcher of beer each and we would finish our beers and our pizzas, now days i am only able to eat a couple of slices.
When i moved out there for a year i would come down to your first station on Saturdays and help wash cars or do a break job. It was a lot of fun and of course the shrimp pizza that was purchased from The New York Restaurant on 6th ave, man were they good.
I have sure missed you and Sharleen these last winters down in Yuma, they have been as much fun. You enlightened me a lot about VW's those winters. I am so glad we came out to Tacoma almost 5 years ago to visit you folks.
We all enjoyed watched professional wrestling in your room in the barracks and of course you had to try the Boston Crab hold on me a time or two. Miss those days.
Buddy, as you know, we became very much good friends all of those years.
Keep the VW's running in heaven.
Love you and miss you.
"Boogie" Doug Reeves
