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(3,574 posts)Chuckie and I grew up together. I moved into the neighborhood about 1967...we. swapped 45 rpm records and 33 1/3 lps... Chicago Transit Authority for the "Easy Rider" soundtrack... Chuck was a couple years older than me and a gifted gymnast. Like his father, a ww2 vet, he joined the USMC. They sent him to Okinawa where he studied karate under real Okinawan teachers, and then to Vienam. When he came back, he was wearing a denim cutoff with the globe and anchor patch sewed on the back. He was taking bars apart singlehandedly. He once disarmed and handcuffed two cops who triedd to arrest him. At this time, noone had even heard of ptsd yet, so they locked him in a mental hospital for the criminally insane for 90 days. Shortly after his release, I ran into him and he apologized for kicking my ass during a drunken rampage. Within the week he was dead, got into a high speed chase with the state cops and rolled his 66 Catalina. Semper Fi, Chuck. Thank you for standing on that wall, and promising us "Nothing will happen to you. Not on my watch".