Posted by Eric Prichard on March 4, 2009:

I write this for Nicole (whom I only met once and briefly at Ft. Sill) and the children - I always assumed these stories would eventually be shared around your kitchen table. Like COL Greenhouse, I must apologize for this late addition, but it is no reflection on how often your husband and father have crossed my mind. It happened again a few moments ago when I was watching "House." It was the "Mob" episode where Dr. House walks out to get his car and finds it replaced with a '66 Corvette and I immediately thought, "Andy used to have a car almost exactly like that." Andy and I knew each other at school, but we didn't really become good friends until four years after school when we were at FAOAC together. Now, for the sake of the kids, of course, I could never publicly condone such a thing, but your dad and I used to skip class (a LOT) and just drive one of the Corvettes around Lawton - it was extraordinarily fine - some of my fondest memories to this day. Then there's another one - still involves Andy behind the wheel, but this time it's a golf cart and we're on the Officer's Club Golf Course on post. We'd had a beverage or two and were with several other classmates when Andy decided to go, well - not so much on the cart path. He proposed to drive off the tee box down about a 90% grade and everyone emphatically declined his offer for a ride. But at the last minute I thought, "oh, what the heck?! What's the worst that could happen?" (Well the cart flipping end over end comes to mind). But of course it didn't and we made it to the bottom of the hill laughing hysterically. And that's how I'll always remember Andy :)

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