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Will's Life

In The Army, Travels on Leave

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It seems Will must have planned ahead to make
the most of each leave. He traveled as far and wide as
he could to see new places or visit old friends.
The following are just some of his travels
while still in the Army.

One of Will's first trips
was to Frankfurt for
Faussen, a carnival time
celebrated in Germany. His good friend, James is
shown on the right with
the skateboard.
Will is on the left.

Dancing at James wedding
to Sara a couple of years later,
Willie stands out in the crowd.

Will traveled to Italy to be
Jame's best man, and later
was honored to be godfather
to his first son, Michael Sean.

Will visited Paris and saw, among
other things, Jim Morrison's grave
(and also Napoleon's).

The Louvre...

...and Notre Dame Cathedral, where he lit a candle and wrote that there he felt "truly mystical."

Willie also had a month leave in the summer of 1995. With a borrowed
camper for the truck Ken, Diane, and Bo Dog headed cross country
to meet Will in Brookhaven Pennsylvania at his grandparent's house.
He had caught a military transport to Dover Air Force Base
in New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia.

Diane, Willie and Ken visited Ken's sister Susan in Cape May, New Jersey.

Willie liked being an only child,
he said, but he loved being with his
cousins. In the back row are cousins
Kenny, Brian, Will, and Beau.
Cousins Brooke and Emily
and Bo Dog are in front.

After a wonderful reunion with sisters Janice, Shari and Susan, and brother Russ and his wife Barbara, the cousins and Ken's mom and dad, we headed west. We saw old friends in Jackson Wyoming, where Ken and Diane met, and also visited the old home place over the hill in Idaho, where Willie was born.

On our way to Deadwood, South
Dakota, where we had traveled as
a family when Willie was 4, we
partied in Sturgis and Will had a
picture taken for the boys
in "Company C."

Will and Ken are shown at Kelly's wedding in Moose, Wyoming.

Will and Ken walked the old home place in Fox Creek, outside Victor, Idaho.

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