GEORGE RALPH CASTILLO
WALL NAME
GEORGE R CASTILLO
PANEL / LINE
35E/20
DATE OF BIRTH
12/18/1947
CASUALTY PROVINCE
QUANG TRI
DATE OF CASUALTY
01/24/1968
Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 - 64 and 1966 - 79) explained the major media's role: "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." ...and to this very day most Americans haven't noticed they're being brained washed! ~ N. Hooben
To my friend Ron Tremblay
ReplyDeleteWhile stationed on Okinawa (1966-1969) I lived for awhile in the small village of Jitchaku...a very hard place to find for an American. It just so happens that George was also in Okinawa some years earlier when he was in high school while his parents were stationed at Kadena Air Force Base so he knew his way around the island. George grew up with my wife and was like a brother to her.
So the years go by and I find myself stationed on Okinawa when one evening we heard a knock on the door and low and behold, it's George. After inviting him in for dinner and long catching up talk it was time to take him back to his unit...he was now in the U.S. Marines. This all took place in November of 1967. After dropping him off we said our good-byes not knowing it would be our last. The following January I woke up after a bad dream. As I sat at the edge of the bed my wife asked what's wrong. I replied that she didn't want to know...but she finally got it out of me. I told her that I dreamed that George was shot in the head...it was a sad getting over it while my wife comforted me with soothing words.
Fast forward a month or two later when we went to the base (as we did every Saturday) to check on mail from home.
And there it was in a letter from my wife's sister a clipping from the San Antonio Light (a newspaper), "Local man killed in action at the DMZ in January...George Castillo died of head injuries as a result of sniper fire."
If you never believed in extra sensory perception I hope this story will convince you it happens.