Bob at the Milwaukee Beer Fest, 2004.
We will miss you Bob Riggle. He was a good man. I first met Bob at Washington High School, Milwaukee in 1965. He was a year behind me but we were both in band and orchestra; that's where the girls were. Bob and I played trombone, which in marching band lingo made us "boners." We had a passing friendship until my graduation in 1966. I figured we would never meet again.
We were reunited again by Vietnam. I was in the USMC 1967-69. Bob was in the Army 1969-71. He was in Da Nang in 1971 and saw a copy of the Winter Soldier, our first National Newspaper. I was listed as Regional Coordination for Wisconsin and Upper Michigan so he wrote a letter. "Did we play trombone in High School and can you send some acid?" "Yes I did," I replied, "and can you send us some Nam grass?... Read More