Facebook...Is Really Good For One Thing...As Far As I Know
My memory of him was on a VERY freaking cold ass day. We were in front of the barracks, the parking lot. There was about 3 feet of snow on the ground and it still was coming down. For some strange reason I wasn't the least bit cold. Ronald Satterthwaite.
To tell you the truth I don't even know if he was my 'best' friend. Can you have best friends while in The Army, who knows. All I know I like hanging out with him. That day in front of the barracks he did something to me, I don't know what it was. But I do know I weighed about 133 pounds soaking wet. I took Ronald...I kind of hip swinged him to the ground. It surprised not only him, but me also. We both laughed. He said something like, "I'm gonna get you little buddy', well something like that. He chased me, but never caught up to me. Thats all I remember of that day and that time.
He met a woman, a pretty German woman, whom he spent most of his time with. To this day I still see her pretty face. She barely spoke a word of English, but when you are in love, its all in the eyes. Ron didn't have a car, but I did and he asked to borrow it one day to go and see her. I told him I didn't think I had enough gas, no problem, he would take care of that and would return the car in the morning. Morning came, formation was over and I didn't see Ron. I caught up with him in the messhall. Oh, and my car wasn't in the parking lot either. I asked him where it was, he told me it konked out on him down in the town and he JUST left it there. No biggie. Turns out the car was on its last legs anyway, and when I found out where it was: at a junk yard, I sold it to them for $50 dollars. See, he was a GOOD friend.
Fast forward MANY years, 2011. Ron came to mind, and I went to Facebook and searched. Found some one who didn't even look like the Ron I knew, but I emailed him anyway. TODAY he emailed me back. Yep it him !! Says he lives in Baltimore, and is no longer married to that German woman, but she is on Facebook. I asked to be added as a friend and within 1 hour she accepted. But what do I say?
So Facebook has its good points.
To tell you the truth I don't even know if he was my 'best' friend. Can you have best friends while in The Army, who knows. All I know I like hanging out with him. That day in front of the barracks he did something to me, I don't know what it was. But I do know I weighed about 133 pounds soaking wet. I took Ronald...I kind of hip swinged him to the ground. It surprised not only him, but me also. We both laughed. He said something like, "I'm gonna get you little buddy', well something like that. He chased me, but never caught up to me. Thats all I remember of that day and that time.
He met a woman, a pretty German woman, whom he spent most of his time with. To this day I still see her pretty face. She barely spoke a word of English, but when you are in love, its all in the eyes. Ron didn't have a car, but I did and he asked to borrow it one day to go and see her. I told him I didn't think I had enough gas, no problem, he would take care of that and would return the car in the morning. Morning came, formation was over and I didn't see Ron. I caught up with him in the messhall. Oh, and my car wasn't in the parking lot either. I asked him where it was, he told me it konked out on him down in the town and he JUST left it there. No biggie. Turns out the car was on its last legs anyway, and when I found out where it was: at a junk yard, I sold it to them for $50 dollars. See, he was a GOOD friend.
Fast forward MANY years, 2011. Ron came to mind, and I went to Facebook and searched. Found some one who didn't even look like the Ron I knew, but I emailed him anyway. TODAY he emailed me back. Yep it him !! Says he lives in Baltimore, and is no longer married to that German woman, but she is on Facebook. I asked to be added as a friend and within 1 hour she accepted. But what do I say?
So Facebook has its good points.
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