Over the next 11 months we will be sharing the Memoirs That Made Me Who I Am. These are compiled stories written about the life of a former Gallup resident Eugene Leone. Before his passing, he wrote, “It is with great delight that I share these stories from my heart, which have been inside for many years. My desire is that the reader would be able to go back to a time that was very real and may have been lost through the years.
56 November 2021
Chapter Five
The Log Cabin Lodge
I
I, Gene Leone, was serving in the last year of a two-year Air Force Cadet Flight training program. Our class was ordered to be shipped to the Salt Lake City Air Base for deployment for active
duty in the vast Pacific theater of war. We were (almost to a man) overjoyed to be allowed to destroy Jap planes and kill many of the “little yellow-bellied Japs.” No thought was given to the fact
