Fred,

Great story!  It doesn't get much better than that.

Phil.
K0NX



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Adams" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 2:17 PM
Subject: Ham Radio Related Experience


>   I was blinded in Viet Nam in August of 1967 and a week later James Orr
> KK4QJ was also blinded and we were both evacuated to walter Reed Hosp
where
> we met and became friends.  In December I was transferred to a veterans
Hosp
> near Chicago and we lost contact for over thirty years.  At the time
neither
> one of us had a ham radio license but both of us became licensed later.
One
> evening I was listening to a net on 3.975 and I heard James for the first
> time in over thirty years and we made contact again.It goes to show that
you
> never can tell.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
>
> FRED C. ADAMS W4HC
> SOW TO THE WIND
> AND REAP THE WHIRLWIND!!
>
>
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