Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Fred; Your just a great guy. Your someone that everyone would want to have contact with. 73 De Anthony W2AJV [log in to unmask] ECHOLINK NODE NUMBER: 74389 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Fred Adams=20 To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:17 PM Subject: Ham Radio Related Experience I was blinded in Viet Nam in August of 1967 and a week later James = Orr=20 KK4QJ was also blinded and we were both evacuated to walter Reed Hosp = where=20 we met and became friends. In December I was transferred to a = veterans Hosp=20 near Chicago and we lost contact for over thirty years. At the time = neither=20 one of us had a ham radio license but both of us became licensed = later. One=20 evening I was listening to a net on 3.975 and I heard James for the = first=20 time in over thirty years and we made contact again.It goes to show = that you=20 never can tell. Best Wishes, FRED C. ADAMS W4HC SOW TO THE WIND AND REAP THE WHIRLWIND!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com=20 Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.15/1834 - Release Date: = 12/6/2008 4:55 PM