Viola & Ralph Cokonougher photo 1970

VIOLA MAE COKONOUGHER, my mother, with me, A1C Ralph W. Cokonougher, in 1970.  

I had just finished a tour of duty in Japan, and was on my way to a tour of duty in Italy, when this picture was taken.  I was home on leave as I traveled from one side of the world to the other.  Mom was glad that I was being sent just about as far away from the VietNam War as one could get.