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    The Man in White
    The Man in White
    The Man in White
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    The Man in White

    By Bobby Everett Smith

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    Bobby Smith grew up in North Texas. He had planned to go to Rice Institute since the seventh grade. It was the number one school in Texas and in those days everyone attending was on a tuition scholarship. Even so, Bobby’s mother, a devout Baptist was opposed. She wanted him to stay home and attend Midwestern University, just on the outskirts of town. “Rice is full of heathens and Jews,” she said. Even so, Bobby was accepted into Rice and got a NROTC scholarship to boot.
    High school though was not his entire life. Bobby fell in love with Julie Wilson, the prettiest girl in the high school and the sister to the city’s most famous football family. Despite intense efforts, Bobby left for college a virgin.
    At Rice, he became friends with Gordon James, another NROTC midshipman, who was a client of the boarding house where they both lived and ate their meals. Gordon was a charismatic guy who liked to discuss all he knew about sex with anyone who would listen. Bobby Smith was eager to listen to what he called Sex Ed 101.
    At the end of school, 1953, Gordon headed for his second summer of NROTC training and Bobby his first. While being transferred in a Navy cargo plane from Corpus Christi, Texas to Norfolk, VA, Gordon was killed along with 40 NROTC students and the plane’s crew. Bobby got the news while he was walking guard duty for the USS Missouri while they were in Panama for a four day port visit. This was the first of many navy flight accidents that Bobby Smith would experience in the next several years.
    This is a true story but the names have been changed to protect the privacy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBobby Everett Smith
    Release dateJun 1, 2015
    ISBN9781310039560
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    Bobby Everett Smith

    Bobby Everett Smith www.bobsmithsblog.comBobby Everett Smith is an American author of fiction and non-fiction essays, short stories and novels, and the publisher of the blog bobsmithsblog.com.Born and raised in Wichita Falls, Texas, Smith earned a degree in Economics from Rice University and an MBA from the University of Washington. Primarily during the Cold War, he served as an aviator in the U.S. Navy. His tours in East and Southeast Asia are inspiration for many of his works, taking the reader vicariously along for his adventurous rides, launched from aircraft carriers in the 7th Fleet.Fueled by his own leadership experiences in the U.S. Navy and the private sector, Smith has become passionate and knowledgeable about our nation’s leaders. In nearly a dozen summaries of great presidential biographies, he examines the lives, achievements and legacies of these important political figures.Smith’s most recent novel, Lida Murry Smith, was inspired by his own family history. Set in the backdrop of the women’s suffrage movement, it traces the arduous and courageous 1905 fictional journey of the Smith family from their farm in Missouri, through the Indian Territories and Oklahoma to a new farm in Texas.For access to these and other works of Bobby Everett Smith, visit:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/744702

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      The Man in White - Bobby Everett Smith

      The Man in White

      By Bobby Everett Smith

      Copyright © 2015 Bobby Everett Smith

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      Contents

      NROTC Testing

      Rice Admissions

      First Kiss

      Going Steady

      The Boarding House

      Naval ROTC

      Sex Ed 101

      Summer Training

      Crash Aftermath

      Book 1 The Man in White

      In the late summer, the Wichita County Fair and Carnival in Iowa Park, Texas pretty much takes top billing in the minds of Wichita County citizens and even those further away. The fair has everything you could ask for at a county fair in North Texas in 1951—rides, thrilling rides, agricultural exhibits and competitions, community service booths and hundreds of eager attendees racing from one exhibit to the next. You can ride all evening for only the change in your pocket at the Wichita County Amusement Association Carnival. With all rides and games only 25¢, you’re guaranteed the best deal with the most fun this summer! The fair, July 31- August 3, 1951, is packed with four days of food, fun and entertainment.

      My group, Jack Hobbs, Ray Franklin, Chaugey Minion and Skipper Jones had agreed to get there early on opening day, July 31, 1951. My dad let me have the car, a 1948 DeSoto and I drove around Wichita Falls picking up the others about 5:30 pm. We were all starting our senior year at Wichita Falls Senior High (WFSH). All of us planned to attend college but at that time, we were not sure which ones. Part of our mission that night was to gather any information available about college and especially ways to pay for it.

      I had been planning to attend Rice Institute in Houston, Texas, since the seventh grade. I remember staying home from school on a sick day. I ordered the admissions catalog from Rice and when it arrived, I began planning what courses I would take for the rest of my junior high and high school days to be sure I was properly accredited when

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