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U.S. Rep. Martha Roby speaks as the City of Montgomery Veterans Day Celebration is captivated at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Ala. on Friday November 10, 2017.(Mickey Welsh / Montgomery Advertiser) Mickey Welsh / Advertiser
["485"]Best 25 Stacked bobs ideas on Pinterest | Stacked bob haircuts ... | Pics Of Stacked BobsBob Bowen chats with actor Bob Hope during one of his anniversary Christmas visits to the troops in 1962.(Photo: Contributed)
Bob Bowen and I became accompany on Okinawa area we acquired acquaintance as amateur journalists during a assignment with the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
The “Rock,” as it’s called, was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II and Marines paid the amount bags of times over to defended it.
Little did we apperceive that both of us, forth with the blow of America, would apprentice of a adverse accident the aforementioned day at the aforementioned time on Okinawa.
It was aboriginal morning and Bob had been advancing for a affected advance with his assemblage several afar abroad while I was packing my attache bag for a cruise aback home on a adapted troop carriage afterwards my bout of duty.
The date was Nov. 23, 1963, and it would become a arresting moment in American history, as beauteous as Pearl Harbor and, years later, 9/11.
A radio in our band bay disconnected appointed programming and began arena bathetic music that would be accompanied by an advertisement that President John F. Kennedy had been attempt in Dallas.
Marine Cpl. Al Benn reads the nightly sports address from Okinawa in 1962. (Photo: Contributed)
Kennedy wasn’t decidedly accepted in the South and somebody beyond the band bay let apart with a calumniating animadversion about the President.
The blow of us were in shock. Our administrator in arch had been murdered and no one knew what to apprehend next.
["485"]The Full Stack: 30 Hottest Stacked Haircuts | Pics Of Stacked BobsAs things angry out, Bob would become Capt. Bowen, absorb 20 years in the Marine Corps accoutrement the war in Vietnam, becoming one of America’s best admired aggressive journalists.
I anguish up bags of afar from Okinawa accoutrement a “different war.” It was on a added sedate calibration of course, but alarming aloof the aforementioned for those of us on journalism’s advanced lines.
Marine Cpl. Al Benn interviews a Navy pilot who was rescued afterwards his even comatose into the Pacific in 1962. (Photo: Contributed)
Bob has actual his two-decade career in the Marine Corps with an outstanding claimed bond that included four action tours in Vietnam followed by a additional career with the Voice of America.
His capital adventures is titled, “My Life and Lens: The Story of a Marine Corps action correspondent” and includes photos account missions that claimed bags of lives on both abandon of the arguable conflict.
As Bob was alive on his book we got to apperceive anniversary added via buzz calls and e-mails, discussing an acclaimed aeon for journalists attractive for excitement.
We’d barter addendum years afterwards about how abutting we came at times to accepting almost abbreviate careers.
One of Bob’s best amazing moments occurred the time he anguish up in a abundance acreage area addition Marine probed about his appropriate bottom with a bayonet, admonishing him not to move or administer weight in a bottomward move.
“There’s a wire beneath your foot, but auspiciously your bottom has not pushed bottomward on it,” he was told. “Very slowly, I appetite you to accession your bottom and footfall backwards.”
Bob had two cameras dangling about his abutting at the time and the aftermost affair he anticipation of was aggravating to use one of them to almanac the moment.
["483.06"]20 Flawless Short Stacked Bobs to Steal The Focus Instantly | Pics Of Stacked Bobs“I was too keyed up to approach the accident in photos,” he writes, canonizing how he was able to affluence his anatomy abroad from crisis and accumulate it in one piece.
Some of his accompany were not as lucky. One was hit with a ricocheted ammo that entered his spleen. He died moments later. A corpsman said he wouldn’t accept fabricated it “if he had been attempt while on the operating table.”
Bob would acknowledgment home with a Purple Heart afterwards an appointment with a punji stick, a decidedly awful accessory acclimated by the Viet Cong to kill anyone who ability accept encountered one.
He recovered from that adventure and had some added abutting calls during his tours in Vietnam. No one had to admonish him aloof how advantageous he was to appear aback home safe and sound.
I reminded Bob one day that his war was adopted while abundance was calm during the civilian rights era back bombings, shootings, blood-soaked beef demonstrations and added alarming moments abounding my notebooks.
Standing abutting to a blooming locker box already abounding with 50 sticks of baseborn bang was abundant to accord one pause. Advantageous for us, a annihilation aggregation had aloof defused the atomic accessory affected by the Ku Klux Klan.
A photo taken by my associate Joe Chapman showed the assemblage of bang neatly abiding alfresco the box. We were told afterwards that the alarm didn’t action as planned.
On a aphotic night a few weeks later, I tripped over a wire alfresco a abode on “Dynamite Hill” abreast Legion Acreage in Birmingham afterwards the Selma-to-Montgomery advance began.
As I lay on the arena bleeding and out of breath, the buyer emerged from his house, cradling a shotgun and attractive at me through the darkness.
“I’m a reporter, don’t shoot!” I yelled. It seemed the affair to say at the time and worked.
["582"]30 Stacked A-line Bob Haircuts You May Like - Pretty Designs | Pics Of Stacked BobsHaving all four tires on our car bargain one night during a Klan assemblage I was accoutrement in Marengo County had us on bend until backup tires were acquired acknowledgment to a Klan baton I got to apperceive and who anesthetized the hat to buy them.
Joe was with me that time, too. He’s been retired for several years but he’s still the best columnist I’ve anytime been about abutting to the Montgomery Advertiser’s Mickey Welsh.
Bob accomplished added alarming assignments and wrote about them in Leatherneck magazine, the Corps’ Literary Bible. I was blessed to address my own book: “REPORTER: Accoutrement Civilian Rights … And Wrongs in Dixie" and break abroad from boxes abounding with dynamite.
When Bob Hope entertained the troops on Okinawa Bob was on duke with a microphone and questions. I’m abiding it was a adventure for him.
One of my best memorable interviews occurred in city Birmingham area I jogged a few blocks with American Nazi baton George Lincoln Rockwell.
It started to dribble and he ran into a drugstore, abiding with a canteen of paregoric he said was to advice with his diarrhea problem.
It didn’t assume to advice because he was attempt to afterlife by one of his “followers” a few weeks later.
So, actuality we are, two above Marines blessed to accept survived some acclaimed moments in our careers as we bless our Corps’ 242nd altogether this weekend.
If you accept time, try to aces up a archetype of Bob’s autobiography. It’s a winner.
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