Brigadier General Norman C. Gaddis, USAF

My earliest living memory of Hazel, Snap and boys was when Snap was assigned to Foster Field base in Victoria. My dad, Ace Martin was a special person in Snaps life as a mentor and as a pilot of the first water. They met in Germany after WWll during reconstruction and remained friends until dad passed away in 1985. It was a sad day for Snap and for all of us to lose him at 65 and he is missed every day. We kept in touch with Hazel and Snap and were saddened to find out he was taken as POW in Vietnam. When he was released he pinned wings on my older brother Danner Martin, lll at Ariz. We visited Hazel and Snap at the home that they built when Snap was released from Vietnam and he said that that was one of the ways he stayed sane by building that home in his mind over that almost 7 yrs of hell that he indured. I have kept in touch with Snap after so many losses fir both our families over the years and am sad that he is gone but l know he now has no more physical problems which plagued him ever since he was a POW. He was a fine man and l am so lucky to have known him even though he and Hazel knew me when l was born in Munich in '49 and l didn't know them for some years! RIP Snap and thank you for all you endured for all of us. Love you.
Sincerely, Kay Martin, Victoria, Tx.