I remember Oscar very well. we were in ROTC together for two years. When Oscar graduated, he inlisted into the US Army and was killed while doing a tour in Vietnam. His name is inscribed on the Vietnam Memborial Wall in front of the old Solano County County House by the cannons.
Cool, straight up dude. We ran track together. He also did (not for the faint hearted [like me]) CROSS COUNTRY!!!! (aka prolonged torture) He could run til the cows came home, and then some. I can still see him taking off across the open (now COMPLETELY built up)fields, in just his x-country uniform, no sweats, in the direction of the drive-in. He once told me he'd run all the way to the top of the mountain overlooking the school, where the Travis radar was set up. Yikes almighty. That was a HELLUVA long way. I believed him. He was that sort of person. A lot of inner strength, courage and determination. It was not the lack of these that played ANY part in his passing. An iron man for real. A great loss. David R. Lee
Oscar and I had fun together now and then in school. I was deeply saddened when I heard of his death in Viet Nam. I was over there shortly after he got killed, we lost a lot of fine people and friends over there, and Oscar was one of them. I still pay tribute to him here in Vacaville at the Viet Nam Memorial, his name is there and also on the one in Sacramento when I get up there now and then. Well we are all getting up in age a little more and I see more of us have passed on. Oscar was to young to go. That war still makes me greve now and then. Thanks Oscar, I will see you some day. Vance
Phillip Beaulieu (1970)
I remember Oscar very well. we were in ROTC together for two years. When Oscar graduated, he inlisted into the US Army and was killed while doing a tour in Vietnam. His name is inscribed on the Vietnam Memborial Wall in front of the old Solano County County House by the cannons.David Lee (1970)
Cool, straight up dude. We ran track together. He also did (not for the faint hearted [like me]) CROSS COUNTRY!!!! (aka prolonged torture) He could run til the cows came home, and then some.I can still see him taking off across the open (now COMPLETELY built up)fields, in just his x-country uniform, no sweats, in the direction of the drive-in. He once told me he'd run all the way to the top of the mountain overlooking the school, where the Travis radar was set up. Yikes almighty. That was a HELLUVA long way. I believed him. He was that sort of person.
A lot of inner strength, courage and determination. It was not the lack of these that played ANY part in his passing. An iron man for real. A great loss.
David R. Lee
Vance Mason (1970)
Oscar and I had fun together now and then in school. I was deeply saddened when I heard of his death in Viet Nam. I was over there shortly after he got killed, we lost a lot of fine people and friends over there, and Oscar was one of them. I still pay tribute to him here in Vacaville at the Viet Nam Memorial, his name is there and also on the one in Sacramento when I get up there now and then. Well we are all getting up in age a little more and I see more of us have passed on. Oscar was to young to go. That war still makes me greve now and then. Thanks Oscar, I will see you some day. Vance