My Grandmother (Amma) and Mom, Richmond, 1944.

Mom around 1950.

Mom and Bobby, off to the Prom, 1960.

My Grandfather (Granddaddy) shortly before his passing in 1970.

Granddaddy after the war, around 1950. Like me, he was well-fed.

My favorite picture of Mark, Mom and I, 1965.

Dad’s graduation photo from East Tennessee State University, 1967.

Mark and I waiting for Santa, 1966.

Dad, Christmas 1969, with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

Dad in Vietnam 1969, with 299th Combat Engineers. Making chow for the troops after a long period in the field.

Change of Command Ceremony, Headquarters and Alpha Company, 82nd Signal Battalion, Fort Bragg. We were leaving Fayetteville and after a short school in Georgia, Thailand was next stop.

Wedding day 5 February 1972, Fort Bragg.

Mom and Dad enjoying the cake that Mark and I were denied.

International School of Bangkok, 1974.

Holding brother Dan, 1974.

Brother Mark and I, Christmas 1975. Wow, I had changed…so had my behavior.

Evidence that my father was truly committed to us, he went from Corvette, to Chevy Impala, to a powder blue Ford Pinto. As you can see, the POS was already having problems holding fluids.

Christmas 1975, with our trusted nanny, Tasani. She told us of others who were stealing from us, and then became the focus of an assassination plot from one of our maids. She saved our lives. I hope she lived a long and happy life.

Our wonderful landlords and friends, Kuhn and Kuhn Ma Iyutt. Both Cornell educated doctors, who asked us to take their daughter to the States in the event of Communist invasion.

All five of us, post-Bangkok. We survived. It was 1979, at Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk. Mom, beautiful as ever, was the center of our lives, and the strength. Little did we know at the time, many years in Europe was in our future.