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Monday,
May 13, 2013: Mark drove to Marshfield, Wisconsin,
to visit long time friend Basil Polasek. Basil's wife Bernice died in the
last year. He is 76 and it was time to talk about life.
Basil is one of two who suggested that
Mark join
the U. S. Army back in 1966. The other was Mark's brother Garry who
was a Captain in the Army. Basil was a sergeant and served in Germany as
crew chief for an Army helicopter in the late 1950's. He was in Germany at
the same time Elvis Presley was serving as a private in the Army. Basil
recalled seeing Presley one day, from just a short distance away. So close
and yet so far!
Basil came from a farm and is very mechanically inclined. He worked for
Felker Brothers in
Marshfield creating special gadgets to keep the factory running until his
retirement about fifteen years ago. |
