Can two people be old friends without ever having met face to face? Sure they can. Steve Bradley and I qualify.
I met him, sort of, 10 years ago when he called to ask if I could help him find the two China Lake sailors who’d helped save his life in 1965. Problem was, he didn’t have names, didn’t have descriptions, didn’t have anything except these barest of details: two Navy enlisted men, based at what was then known as the China Lake Naval Ordnance Test Station, had been driving back from Bakersfield when they spotted him in the road, bloody and limp.