Well, his birthday was way earlier than expected -- I was smack-dab over the middle of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in my EC-47 getting checked out on secret missions after being transferred out of the Delta to Bien Hoa near Saigon for a month and, then, switched to a different airplane with completely different equipment and a completely different mission! It only made sense to switch AC-47 PILOTS to EC-47's, but not navigators. The pilots must have been making the decisions. They often have difficulty thinking of anyone other than pilots. DUH!
Son, Ivan, was not expected for another month but his mom developed toxemia that required the base hospital in Laredo to induce labor early. If they had gone to a civilian doctor, the routine tests would not have been done which discovered this problem. They both may well have died! The only problem was that Raquel let the nurse talk her into changing the name she & I had agreed on BEFOREHAND to list on Ivan's birth certificate! It was the first hint that she would let other people push her around and do things against my better judgement. I took those things as a promise on her part and, it became a broken promise. (One of many to follow.) It was the first hint that her word didn't mean much to her. Readers should beware of this in their own lives if honor and truth-telling are of much importance to them: a person does not value truthtelling highly if she doesn't stay with her promises. Or vice-versa! She is likely to be unreliable in other situations, too. MY experience over the next 20 years taught me not to trust a person like her. But it TOOK 20 years and a psychological test because Raquel had been well-trained over her lifetime to hide the truth and say what would get her her own way or, at least, keep her out of overt confrontations. Now THERE is a hint of her Mexican culture coming through.,,, I DON'T think it was just HER family although I don't have scientific evidence of that, yet.
posted by Richard A @ 9:00 PM
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