I Lost A LIfe Long Friend Today

I got word a little while ago that one of my life long friends had passed today.
Sammy and I grew up together in that little community, started 1st grade
together, graduated together. He was voted most handsome our jr. and sr. years,
was captain of the basketball and baseball teasm (we were to small a school for
football til a few years later.)

We even went to Tyler Junior College together for a year and then I got married by he continued. However, he was drafted in '65. In Viet Nam he took a bullet that remained in his spine and put him in a wheel chair. this was early '67. . I went to see him in the hospital at
Fort Sam Houston in May '67. Bless his heart, he still had hopes of walking tho
his Mom had said he would never walk again. He was having that "phantom pain" in
his feet and legs and was sure feeling was returning.

Well he came home and eventually married and they adopted a baby. He coached Little League baseball and basketball, enter special Olympics, and used his wheels" as legs.
Even tho we lived 400 miles apart now, we were friends on Facebook.

HIs parents were told he would not live to see 27, but he died today and would have
been 69 in Dec. Sammy, you fooled them all didn't you. You are going to be
missed by a lot of people, but at the same time you will be seeing several of
our classmates who went before.