Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

Some friends stopped by the house last Sunday. They had been in Hawaii for a couple weeks and shared their impressions with me. I was in Hawaii once, but my experience was far different from theirs.

The military sent us to Okinawa for war games. I was a radio operator on one of the teams. There were sixty of us, I think.

We left Okinawa after the exercise and made a stop on Wake Island for a da...