I met Jimmy at a Boy Scout camp. He was probably five years older than me. I was 12 or 13. He was a member of the camp staff. And, we'd go every summer down to summer camp for a week, and there would be other young men, older guys hired to teach swimming, lifesaving, how to do so many things. And, and give you the opportunity to develop character and teamwork and leadership and all that stuff that comes from it.

And Jimmy Bean was just one of those, one of several older guys that was uplifting to me. Sometimes when you're growing up, you wonder if anybody really sees you, you know? And when an older guy sees you, you know, and says hi. Or, you know, welcomes you at their staff table at camp or something. It, it gives you a, an endowed sense of being a human. Like somebody values, you know? You're not just another one of the gang. Here's an older person that sees something - you're learning that there's, that there's that part of life, too. Where, you have an image. You have, you realize you relate not just to girls, but to guys and other members of the football team. And some people don't like you and some people do, but some people inspire you. And Jimmy Bean was one of those.

And I still remember the last time I saw Jimmy, I had become a life saving instructor and - fence around the pool there at this outdoor camp, he and his future bride to be walked up to the fence and he said hello. And, I was, felt so proud. I remember sitting up on that lifeguard stand, and here was one of my heroes who came to see me. But I couldn't, I couldn't get out and go visit with him. And they wandered on. And the next time I saw him was on Sixth Street at the Baptist church for his funeral.

Lieutenant Jimmy Bean, he became a lieutenant, he was killed in an army office that was invaded by the Viet Cong. Everybody in the office was killed. They weren't even armed. He was, managing supplies and stuff, and he died at his desk. But it's just the reality of war. Some came back and some didn’t.