Did you know dad was in the FBI?

Yes, I did. He would of gone back, but they didn’t want him going to law school. So he worked at the Pentagon and was given rank of colonel in the Air Force. I asked mom how that worked and she said Colonel Byrd set him up as an attaché to the CIA, but that he never really said much about it. From what I can tell he was a spy working the iron curtain up until he got his job with the Lumberman’s Association. My only evidence tho are his passports you gave me from the late 50’s and early 60’s loaded with stamps from Eastern European countries. 

I think there’s a ton of stuff we’ll never know about him because that’s the way he wanted it. Especially his service in the Pacific Theater at the end and after the war. Did you know he was a Sergeant in the Marines days away from leading a company on a beach landing of mainland Japan when we dropped the bombs. When I said I thought you were just a clerk and typest. He said was and his eyes watered up.

He was pretty far gone when I started asking the hard questions. 

I asked him a lot about his dad and I think he had more PTSD from him than from his service or football. 

Thanks. I have found a lot of random papers form different branches of the military. I’m sure there is more to the story

Can you believe this letter is addressed to Hoover? 

It was a little surreal 

Mom’s call

I printed some pictures of the fam for my mom as she doesn’t do digital. As almost an afterthought I also printed this old Keith family photo I had posted about recently. Mailed them off to her and forgot about it. So my mom calls last night and that’s very special for a lot of reasons. First, it’s the first time in a long time she has actually called me. Second, it’s the first time she’s called me in a very long time when nothing was wrong. 

She just called to say thank you for the pictures! Especially the old black and white one. Where did I get it? What made me think to send it to her? How wonderful it was to see it. "Your father never looked more handsome than he does in that picture!" She just couldn’t stop looking at it. It has made her day. Thank you for sending it.

Made me take a closer look. He was rather handsome. So young. So thin. So much like I used to look before I got old and fat and bald and started looking like the old DDD I used to know.

Figure it’s about time I got serious about this trend of getting older and fatter. Not to worried about the balder thing, but I need to start getting thinner and younger and healthier before it’s too late. Thanks for the call Mom. And your welcome. 🙂❤️👍