Mission City Voices: Mom and the Army Doctors

A reader recalls the time his mom drove all the way to Camp Roberts to diagnose his brother when the Army doctors could not.

  Approximately mid 1952, my brother was drafted into the U. S. Army. He was sent to Camp Robert’s, which was North of San Louis Obispo, CA, for Basic Training. This was approximately 180 miles from our home in Oakland, CA. Just before he completed Basic Training, he called home one Friday evening to tell … Read more