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The following information was sent to T.Mason on 16 Apr 2008 in GEDCOM from Thomas McBryde of Austin, Texas.
We were good friends as well as parent and son. From early childhood throughout the rest of his life, Mike had an outgoing personality that easily attracted friends and girls -- lot of girls. He always liked the female sex, and not just his contemporaries. That liking extended to mothers and grandmothers, and he always wanted them to look pretty. In fact when Mike was killed, Mother didn't wear the usual somber clothing to his funeral. She said Mike always wanted her to wear pretty clothes and she bought and wore a new pink dress. "That was for Mike", she said.
Once when Mike was in the third grade he knew that I was going to visit his schoolroom, so at breakfast he described the dress he wanted me to wear. I couldn't place such a dress, so told him he'd have to go to my closet and show me the one he meant. He pointed out my one and only cocktail dress---strapless with seed pearls across the top. It took some doing to explain why I couldn't wear that to his school.
Another incident that I found amusing was when a young girl that I had just met came by and was looking at family pictures. She didn't say much, but later, after we had become better acquainted, told me she thought (at that time) I was a little old to be having pictures of Paul Newman scattered about. Truth it was not Paul Newman, was Mike.
He was in the Signal Corp. during the Vietnam War and stationed in Saigon.
Killed in an Automobile accident.