Wes was my first best friend at perhaps 2. We could hop fence in backyard to play ball at Roxboro El, which we did once or twice a day . His dad was in WWII and had a walkie talkie that we strung up between our two bedrooms. One day after the walkie had set idle for a couple of years, when we were both sick, remember ringing the hand crank and talking for hours. So shocked to hear he had died while in college. There was a large, long bush between our houses with a hidden place that two little boys could hide out in. There we became blood-brothers and burried a time capsule. Nearly 70 years later, I wonder what we put in it.
Robert Oberst
Wes was my first best friend at perhaps 2. We could hop fence in backyard to play ball at Roxboro El, which we did once or twice a day . His dad was in WWII and had a walkie talkie that we strung up between our two bedrooms. One day after the walkie had set idle for a couple of years, when we were both sick, remember ringing the hand crank and talking for hours. So shocked to hear he had died while in college. There was a large, long bush between our houses with a hidden place that two little boys could hide out in. There we became blood-brothers and burried a time capsule. Nearly 70 years later, I wonder what we put in it.