Charles Addotta

I just took a chance on searching for Charlie Addotta and found his obituary listed. I was in high school when we crossed paths around 1964/5. He was a great funny smart kind guy. But our race was not the same and my mother was born and raised in the rural south. The races NEVER MIXED. UNFORTUNATELY she was adamant and grilled me, chased me, chided me and sat at the door whenever he visited. Finally I knew that she would never change or accept Charlie. So I gave him up. To this day I...

Charlie and I went through basic training at Ft. Dix, NJ in the fall of 1965 and on to army language school in Monterey, Ca., he, studying Serbo-Croatian and I, Russian. He had a great love of photography and spent hours in the photo shop at the language institute. Because he was National Guard, and I was regular army (4 years) we parted ways after school ended in September, 1966. I have always remembered his friendship and his mother's hospitality to us on a weekend leave during basic in...