June 10, 1971 — A Rescue Pilot’s Letter Home: Reading, R&R, and Our Family’s Future
Send us a text In this June 10, 1971 letter from Vietnam, my dad—then flying rescue missions with the U.S. Air Force Pedro team—writes to my mom about R&R plans, tracks her pregnancy dates, and talks about how he’s passing the long hours on alert by reading pocket novels. My dad loved to read all his life. In fact, one of the hardest parts of his final years was losing his sight when cancer spread to his eyes—taking away the books he’d always loved. That loss is one of the reasons I s...
In this June 10, 1971 letter from Vietnam, my dad—then flying rescue missions with the U.S. Air Force Pedro team—writes to my mom about R&R plans, tracks her pregnancy dates, and talks about how he’s passing the long hours on alert by reading pocket novels.
My dad loved to read all his life. In fact, one of the hardest parts of his final years was losing his sight when cancer spread to his eyes—taking away the books he’d always loved.
That loss is one of the reasons I started this podcast: so his words, and my mom’s, could still be read, heard, and remembered.
In this letter, as in so many others, he reminds her: “We have each other. We both know that this is the best love possible.”
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The Allgoods: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Love is a personal podcast project based on real letters exchanged between Capt. Richard Allgood and Capt. Sarah Allgood during the Vietnam War. Photos of the original letters, family snapshots, and behind-the-scenes commentary are available for supporters.
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