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Show JAME PATTERSON u u t 15 20 1 new world to us coming back to it. So, that's about my story of the air force. I was discharged in 1961 ; retired I should say, with twenty-two years of service. And I've had a lot of treatment for schisto. A lot of doctors have never even heard of it. And, so, I knew my time was limited as to what I could do. About twelve years ago I got Parkinson's Disease, and that's what I'm suffering from now. And, so, the service has done real good for us. They try to help us find medicines, but it's a slow process. But now since so many notable people, like the ex-president, and these singers, and the boxers-a lot of light is on this disease. I've got a nephew who is a doctor over in Vernal. He come over here and he said, "Well, Pat, of all the diseases you could have had, like so many people have got in this life, you picked the best one because there is more research going on with that than anything else, for which I'm glad. They've done a lot of research with medication that's helped out a lot. I've still got a long ways to go. Do you think I'll make a hundred? LUK: Uh huh, yeah. Easily. Could I ask you, how were you captured? What happened? Was it sudden, or was it expected? JAM: Well, we were expecting it because we were down at a place called Valencia. It was a secondary field. If they couldn't get back into Del Monte we kept that field open. Like if they lost their wheels, or something, and they couldn't make a good landing they'd they'd come down to Valencia and we could land it down there. So, I was stationed down there. We had threats of Kamikaze from Japanese. Well, some paratroopers sky dived out of there and they'd taken over certain things. So 13 |
