Ventura County Where Friendships Last!

I picked up the local West County Star today and on the front page and pictured was a long time friend and past co worker of mine! His name is Richard T. Lee better known as Dick Lee to me. When he was 18 it says that he became one of the 1,000 black pilots who would eventually be known as the Tuskegee Airmen. He flew in North Africa and Burma during WWII. Wow!! Do you know I never knew this about Dick Lee? I knew he had retired from the service when I met him in the County Assessor's Office so many years ago, but never did he brag or talk about this major part of his life. Dick Lee is one of the nicest people I know. Unpretentious, always upbeat and smiling, and would do anything for anybody. I had the pleasure of supervising him as an Appraiser in the local County Assessor's Office. You just could not help but like him. He never complained, he never caused trouble, he did his job and he smiled his way through it every single day until he retired from the County. We had a wonderful retirement party for him and one of the themes was "Don't Worry....Be Happy!" We wrote a new version of this song and performed it for him and he loved it!!

I just want to say how proud I am to know this man and how worthy he is of being honored. Thank you R. T. Lee for being who you are.

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