Bruce Riley:  

ant to do. <grin> Military Joined in 1960 and after basic training I was assigned to Electronics A school. Upon graduation I was assigned to the USS Endurance MSO435 and spent the next three years there. Made two trips to Western Pacific and served in a joint task force with the South Vietnamese Navy on both trips. Discharged as an E5 in June 1964 at Travis AFB in Fairfield CA. Update Nov 26 2009 | General Bruce's troubles Here is an update on the past few months at the Riley house. Lorene was trying to not wake me at 4 AM but had to go to the bathroom. She staggered and fell and hit the toilet so hard that she broke the water tank flooding the bathroom. I heard her and got to her lying in a pool of blood and water and other bodily fluids. I panicked and called 911 and they hauled her to the hospital in an ambulance. She was not injured enough to require admittance to the hospital so I took her home. Then the water main to the house ruptured (it is 50 years old) causing us to get a bill for over $200. I called a plumber and we had the main replaced as well as the interior pipes for the house with all copper including the showers, all feeder pipes to the sinks and the refrigerator. We now have a great water supply and so we decided to replace the lawns which were not doing well because of the low water pressure. That was just finished when I had the accident that I told you about with the car in the garage. As you know I hit the house furnace and crushed it. So now we have had to have it replaced and it is a pain. We are using three oil filled radiant heaters that are doing a good job keeping us warm. But trying to regulate them seems to be more than I can handle. Lorene keeps telling me she hot then cold then hot. I don't feel the temperature changes, but, I know that it is definitely not menopause because we have been through that at age 60. Thank you for reading our tale it is our way of explaining our being distracted for the past few months. I can now understand and have compassion for others. I have become a true believer in the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer that goes "God give me the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference." God bless your house and all that reside in it. 9-20-10 Udate Lorene and I have both had some serious medical issues during this year. She had a stroke in April and has almost completely recovered. I on the other hand had to have my entire colon removed because of bleeding. The surgeon connected my little intestine to my rectum which was a good thing as I don't have to wear a colostomy bag and things seem normal enough. We both wish that we could have attended the reunion but are both to unstable medically to make the trip. Hope that you all had a lot fo fun seeing old friends and classmates. A Bruce & Lorene