I just got word that my old college buddy passed away. He lasted less than two weeks. He must have been totally eaten up by the cancer. He was a bit less than a year younger then me.
Below is the last picture I got of Dennis. It was on our last 'photo safari' a year ago. He had heard that they had a Titan missile on display at the South Dakota Air & Space Museum at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, SD, so we stopped to get some pictures. Back when Dennis was a Captain in the Army he was assigned as a lesion to an Air Force Titan II Missile complex in Arizona and for about six months he was part of the crew rotation that manned the underground missile launch control center, and he wanted to show me what a Titan missile looked like, so we stopped.
April 2019 (Sony a6000)
I'm going to miss our road trips. We had already started to plan next years trip to the Southwest part of the country, where one of the stops was going to be that old Titan Missile complex in Arizona where he had been assigned. It has since been turned into a museum, highlighting the Titan II ICBM. One day, I'll have to stop there, if for no other reason then to honor him for his service.
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