Larry Friese grew up in South Dakota and while in High School got a Navy ROTC scholarship to go to college. In 1965 he finished his BS at UW in Seattle, was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marines, and served as a Bombardier/Navigator in Marine A 6 Intruders. Friese’s plane was shot down on his 138th combat mission in Vietnam in February 1968. Captured and held in prison for more than five years, he was released on March 14, 1973. After repatriation, Friese transferred from the Marines to the Navy, and married his wife Lillian, who is the widow of an Air Force F 100 pilot Vietnam casualty. Friese retired in 1985 after twenty years in the military, and now dabbles in real estate, motorcycling, snow skiing, river rafting, and water skiing. |