Can Do: The SeaBee Friends Who Came for Me in Vietnam

By Don Wolfe

One of the greatest gifts I took home from Vietnam was lifelong friendship.

I want to tell you about one of those friends, George Rothnie.

We met in the summer of 1968 at the Navy’s Equipment Operators School in Davisville, Rhode Island. After training, we were separated for a year of shore duty—George went to Texas, and I was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois. A year later we…