Just learned that a young man, age 30, died in a plane crash over the Atlantic. He was in the Air Force, I think, on a radar plane. Might have been in the Navy, not sure. Anyway, his name is Cameron Hall from Natchitoches. I coached him in soccer when he was 14-15 yrs old. Was goal keeper for the Natchitoches Gators, and a damn good one too. We advanced to the state semifinals two years in a row with him tending the net.

I worked with his dad, who was a helicopter pilot, and perhaps ironically, survived Nam...and his own crash into an ocean.

Not directly related to the current war, but another tragic loss of one of our nation's finest.

Hope you will remember the Hall family in your thoughts and prayers.

Now....I have to go to see his parents.