This Trip For Daddy Was Real

  FT. BRAGG (UPI) --- "Dear Kim's Daddy," the letter in the childish block letters began. "I love you. I hope you get well." The letter was written by a first grade classmate of 7-year-old Kim Canales, whose father, SFC Earle E. Canales, is one of the wounded U.S. paratroopers evacuated to Womack Army Hospital here from the Dominican Republic.
   Canales, a platoon sergeant from the 508th Infantry, was shot in the arm about four hours after his unit reached the Dominican Republic.
   Like most of the men who began flying out of here Thursday, he had no chance to tell his wife and children goodbye
 Husband Gone
   Mrs. Vivian Canales, an attractive redhead, said she learned her husband had gone from another Army wife. Mrs. Canales said her two daughters, Kim and another age 4, were too young to understand their father's trip was different from one of the frequent practice alerts.
   Her 11-year-old son was "pretty shook up" though. "When he asks questions all you can do is answer them. He kept watching the news on TV and asking 'Is that where Daddy went?' "
   Now that Canales is safe in the hospital, the boy is proud that his daddy will probably get a Purple Heart.

[Greensboro Record, Greensboro, NC, 05 May 1965, Pg 1]

FT. BRAGG, N.C. (AP) --The public information office at Ft. Bragg released the following list of wounded in the fighting in the Dominican Republic.  all were evacuated to the Womack Army Hospital at Ft. Bragg with minor wounds.

3. SFC Earle E. Canales, Co. C, 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry, Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, 7 Faulke ave., Savannah, Ga.

4. Sgt Wayne S. Barefoot, Co. C, 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry, Wife. Mrs.. Wanda Barefoot, 2702 Murchison Rd., Fayetteville.

5. Pfc James S. Long, HHC, 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry, Father, Kenneth Long, Box 325, Utica, Illinois..

[The High Point Enterprise, High Point, NC, Monday, May 3, 1965, Page 21]

HAPPY HE'S HOME:  Mrs.. Earle Canales has a big grin ass she sis beside her wounded husband's hospital bed at Ft. Bragg.  Sgt Canales of the 508th Infantry was wounded in the arm by sniper fire about four hours after his platoon reached the Dominican Republic. (Associated Press Wirephoto)

[Greensboro Record, Greensboro, NC, 05 May 1965, Pg 8]