![]() Had it not been for the Vietnam War, I might have joined the Air Force Charlie, meanwhile, was being groomed for the Navy. ![]() We are only two years apart in age, and both were training to join the military. That memory flooded back Saturday when I avidly watched as the coronation service and costume parade made its way from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace over the course of four hours. I was never angry, just disappointed that we’d never become friends. I figured he got so many requests, he could not answer them all. It won’t take long, one letter or postcard a month for the rest of the term.” To my surprise, he never wrote back. ![]() As I long ago wrote in a letter addressed to “Bonnie Prince Charles” (I thought his first name was Bonnie), “In social studies class, our project is to select a foreign pen pal, and I am hoping that you’ll be mine. ![]() We live in different worlds, Charlie and I, but I believe we’ve always had a bond. ![]()
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