In Memory

Harold (Tom) Racine



 
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03/05/11 10:41 PM #1    

Marvin G. Schuster

I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE FUN ME AND TOM HAD DRIVING AROUND IN OUR CARS.  WE WOULD PICK UP TOMS GIRL FRIEND AND HER FRIEND AND WE WOULD GO DOWN TO GREY CLOUD ISLAND AND SCARE THE GIRLS ABOUT THE GREEN LATERN. I ALSO JOIN THE NAVY WITH TOM, DENNIS LARSON,TIM CALLAHAN AND JEFF LETENDER, WE WENT IN ON THE BUDDY SYSTEM SO WE WERE ALL IN THE SAME BOOTCAMP TOGETHER BUT THATS AS FAR AS WE WENT BECAUSE SOME OF US ENLISTED AN EXTRA YEAR TO GO TO A SPEACIALTY SCHOOL SO THAT KILLED THE BUDDY SYSTEM IN OUR ORDERS, TOM HAD GONE TO THE EAST COAST AND SOME WENT TO SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN DIEGO, WE DIDN,T KNOW WHERE DENNIS LARSON WENT BECAUSE WHEN WE WERE HOME ON LEAVE ONE LAST TIME TOGETHER DENNIS DID NOT RETURN TO BOOT CAMP SO WE NEVER KNEW WHAT HAPPEN TO HIM. I WOULD NOT SEE TOM AGAIN UNTIL I GOT OUT OF THE NAVY AND HE RETURN FROM HIS 4 TH YEAR  OF SERVICE, WE HUNG AROUND OFF AND ON BUT BECAUSE HE WAS MARRIED AND HE WAS BUILDING A FAMILY WE  SAW EACH OTHER LESS AND LESS I WOULD SEE HIM AGAIN ONCE WHILE WORKING AT THE METS CENTER BUT WE NEVER HOOKED UP AGAIN , I WENT TO A HOUSE IN SOUTH ST PAUL BECAUSE SOME ONE TOLD ME HE LIVED THERE BUT EVERY TIME I WENT THERE AND KNOCKED NO BODY WOULD ANSWER UNTIL I WENT TO HIS FUNERAL I FOUND OUT HE DID NOT LIVE AT THE HOUSE I HAD VISTED IT TURNS OUT THE  ADDRESS WAS THE SAME BUT WRONG END OF THE STREET IT SEEMS IN SOUTH ST PAUL  THERE WAS TWO ENDS OF THIS STREET BECAUSE I HAD CALLED TOM,S WIFE AFTER THE FUNERAL AND WENT OVER TO VISIT AND FOUND OUT  WHERE HE DID LIVED I ONLY WISHED I HAD CALL HIS NUMBER AND VISITED HIM BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN SICK FOR AWHILED AND IT WOULD OF BEEN NICE TO TALKED HIM AND AFTER VISITING HIS WIFE A COUPLE OF TIME I LEARNED THAT WHAT HE HAD BEEN UP TO OVER THE YEARS,  THEN A YEAR LATER HIS WIFE HAD DIED ALSO . ITS FUNNY HOW THINGS CHANGE SO FAST AS THE YEARS GO BY ITS ALWAYS THE GOOD PEOPLE GO FIRST , I DO REGRET NOT KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH TOM BECAUSE HE SURE DONE ALOT AFTER THE SCHOOL AND NAVY TIMES,


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