Memorial Day Report

UPDATE Linda Mustion has an update on the Larry Maxam Park, so be sure to check out her blog here. ORIGINAL POST Thanks Cathy Nicholls Coyle for the update! John and I attended the McCambridge Memorial Day Service yesterday (Monday). There were a lot of BHS alumni there; especially from the class of '66. Linda Schuster Mazur had sent notices out to her classmates to attend the Memorial Day Service since they would be mentioning the dedication of Pacific Park in the name of Larry L. Maxam. The '66 attendees that I saw there were: Ron Franzen; Mel Barnes; Randy Boeing; and Gil Uribe. Our classmates that attended were: Linda Mustion; Beverly Bullock; Kent Barcus, Al Thouette and myself. And of course, Pam and Jon Kirkwood ('64) were there too! We were told that Larry Maxam's Mother, sister (Linda) and brother (Robin) had moved to Australia shortly after Larry was killed. They found out that Larry's mother died about six months ago but they would try to fly out his brother and sister for the actual dedication of the park in the fall of 2009. It was a very nice ceremony. The new Mayor, Gary Bric, was there doing most of the speaking; along with Mickey DePalo ('64). Gary Bric mentioned that his brother, our classmate, Bill Bric, had been killed after just six weeks in Viet Nam. He told us that Bill was a Green Beret and that 17 Green Berets had been killed that day. Which to this day is the highest number of Green Berets ever killed in one day! Mayor Gary Bric BHS '70 He also told us that there was a book written about his brother. The author was with Bill when he was killed. Gary said that he still has trouble reading only a few short exerpts from it. The name of the book is: On the Ground - The Secret War in Viet Nam. If anyone would like to read the book here is the information: Online Book Store - The Secret War in Vietnam