Pat Byrne in the Marines

Pat Byrne was one of the nicest guys I have ever met.  He was also in the Marines, like Daylin.  But I believe he was infantry rather than support.  I met Pat through Sue, a classmate at California State College (now University) at Dominguez Hills.  He was dating a girl, April, who lived across the street from Sue.  Pat and I must have met sometime in the Spring of 1970, after I had transferred from East LA JC in the fall of 1969.

Unfortunately, like Daylin, Pat was not gay.  But that did not stop us from becoming friends.  I even told him once, after getting up sufficient courage, that I was attracted to him.  That didn't bother him, so he was certainly helpful toward my becoming comfortable with being gay.

I got a few photographs from him when I was one of the editors of the creative publication at Cal State Dominguez Hills.  I was putting in some of my poems and needed photographs to emphasize those pages.  He supplied several from his time in the Marines in Vietnam.

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