MY STEP FATHER, ROBERT, "BOB", WAS A GREAT GUY WHO LOVED US AS IF WE WERE HIS OWN. A GREAT SOILDER, WHO SERVED HIS COUNTRY, CIVIL SERVICE BUT PASSED AWAY LESS THAN 6 MONTHS FROM RETIREMENT WITH OVER 26 YEARS OF TOTAL SERVICE. A WORLD WAR II VETERAN AND VIETNAM CIVILIAN WHO SPENT THREE YEARS, 1967 THRU 1969, THRU THE "TET OFFENSIVE". SADLY, TOO YOUNG GONE NOT TO ENJOY RETIREMENT IN HIS GOLDEN YEARS.