Lesley Weatherford:
CLASS OF 1972
Cahokia High SchoolClass of 1972
Cahokia, IL
Wirth Middle SchoolClass of 1968
Cahokia, IL
Elizabeth Morris Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
Cahokia, IL
Penniman Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
Cahokia, IL
Pitzman Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
Cahokia, IL
Lesley's Story
My wife of nearly 38 years, Donna Weatherford, died April 14, 2011, of multiple myeloma. She was 57 and also a '72 graduate of CHS...
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Military
This is the only real war story I have.
In May 1975, I was an airman stationed at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Vietnamese linguist, monitoring radio traffic on Viet Cong movements down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The war had been over two weeks when the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia decided to seize an American merchant ship, the S.S. Mayaguez. A helicopter carrying twenty-three airmen, most of them secu...Expand for more
rity police, from my base was sent to Cambodia to help rescue the ship. The copter crashed about an hour after takeoff, and all 23 on board were killed.
The next night as I was working the radio, I ran across the American Forces radio station in Udorn, Thailand. I just happened to roll across the frequency as the DJ was introudcing "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan. Thirty-one years later, I still remember his words: "And this is in memory of some sky cops who are no longer with us."
And more than three decades later, I cannot hear that song without tearing up.
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