Your story on Japanese balloon bombs was very interesting. (Friday article by Eric Stevick, “70 years ago, a balloon bomb landed in Everett.”)
In December of 1943, I was 18 and a brand new soldier in basic training at Fort Lewis. They stopped the training and sent us to wherever there was a balloon sighting.
One of the places was Bend, Oregon, but the snow was so deep in the mountains near Bend that we were unable to search. While in Bend, however, I met a cute redhead and we exchanged letters after I returned from the Pacific. To make a long story short we have now been married for 67 years!
That is the one and only “good” that resulted from those bombs.
Robert Cox
Everett
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