 Boot Camp Buddies at Paris Island (I am in center) |
 Newspaper write up from Boot Camp |
 Third Squad, 3d Platoon, Item Co. 3/5 in Korea 1951 |
 Me posing for a picture on a Korean ridgeline |
 Some Bethesda Naval Hospital Buddies |
 Armed Service Police duty followed Korea |
 The campaign hat was not always the DI uniform |
 Major Norton promotes me to Technical Sergeant in his Baltimore, MD Recruiting Office |
 On rappel with 1st Force Recon |
 Pathfinders aboard a carrier in the Pacific in 1962. We jumped on Mindoro from the C1A aircraft beside me. |
 The C1A jump door is a tight fit |
 Technical Sergeant Fox, Assistant Pathfinder Team Leader, Team 44, bringing in the birds with the landing force on Mindoro |
 TSgt Fox on Mindoro with Pathfinder Team 44, 1st Force Reconnaissance Company, FMF PAC on Operation Tulungan in March 1962 |
 Duty with SHAPE, Security Honor Guard Platoon, Paris France in 1965 |
 Advisor duty with the Vietnamese Marines 6th Infantry Battalion |
 On a battalion Search and Destroy Mission with the Vietnamese Marines in IV Corps, the Delta of Vietnam |
 Vietnamese Marine Battalion advisors have a chance to get together. I am second from the left. |
 Me on some ridgeline in I Corps, Vietnam with Company A, 1st Bn, 9th Marines |
 President Nixon presents me with the Medal. My wife is on my left and my mother on my right. |
 More White House shots, James, Amy, Ray and Molly |
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(LEFT) My family at the White House for my Medal presentation: from left are James, Ruby, Molly, David, Elmer, Mother, Dad, Dorothy, Linda, Ray, Dixie. Elmer holds Amy, and Betty is out of the picture to the right of Dixie. |  Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird talks with Dotti Lu |
 My father on my right and General Chapman, Commandant of the Marine Corps on my left in the White House after receiving the Medal from President Nixon |
 Marine Security Guard duty in Europe, here I am with our three daughters in Budapest in 1973 |
 Dotti Lu and our children play around the Leaning Tower of Pisa in October 1973 |
 My girls at Camp Lejeune at my deployment hour with 1st Bn, 6th Marines to Okinawa in 1983. From left are Dixie Lee, Dotti Lu, Nicole Lyn, and Amy Lu |
 First Battalion 6th Marines on top of Mt Fuji after a hard and fast climb. The wind chill of 20 below zero was far different from the 72 degrees we left below. |
 Our children two years later |
 I graduate from the Army War College |
 My girls pier-side on the Norfolk Naval Base when I was assigned as the Fleet Marine Office with 2nd Fleet aboard the USS Mt. Whitney |
 One of several meetings with President George Bush |
 I talk with Marines at Quantico |
 Dotti Lu and I at a Presidential Inauguration Military Ball |
 Marine camouflage uniform while Commanding Officer, Officer Candidate School, Quantico, VA |
 I run the OCS Combat Course with candidates at the ripe old age of 60 |
 I give a candidate company their oath of office in Little Hall auditorium |
 Our grandchildren, from left are Andrew, Abbey, Westin, and Shelby. |
