how could i forget these guys?

two names that escaped me in my earlier post....bob showers and bruce baur. bruces dad,bruce sr. was the town pilot,ran the little itty bitty airfield. both of my parents had known bruce sr since childhood. at one point in '66 i believe, my folks arrainged a plane ride for us, taking us on a 500' -600' high flight around the county. exciting? you bet! i had been interested in aviation since a young lad of 5 or 6. and this was the best thing ever! i got to see my grandmas house, my granfathers farm, all the little lakes, the town, you name it. come to think of it, it was for my birthday that year. thanx pops!!!

anyway, back to the boys. bob was a skinny little guy at the time, although he did fill out a little later. bruce and i were "husky". thats what us chub scouts were called back then . the three of us were buds, having some classes together at school and hanging out as best we could. i guess we were all outcasts of sorts, probably why we bonded together. bob and i stayed friends after we moved to germany in dec '66 , picking up pretty much where we had left had left things when i came back year later. bruce had moved on to other interests and people, although we were still friendly. bob and i would still be friends to this day, if we had managed to stay in contact. i have tried to contact him through various online means, but haven't heard anything. one thing i will say about him, he treated my grandma like a queen when she went shopping at the tiger supermarket. he started as a bagger and worked his way up to manager. he alaways spoke to her,asked about me,asked about her whole family, how everyone was doing, just a great guy. and long after he and i had lost touch, she would always tell him of me and my wayward adventures in so cal. i last spoke with him when i made my "triumphent return" in aug of '73,but i heard of him pretty much anytime my grandma wrote or talked to my mom, well into the late '70s-early '80s.