text:  But again, they never spoke. All of this was by mail, all these years. So now I'm in Vietnam, and it was arranged that I would meet Miss Buck on R&R. And I was lucky. I got two R&Rs. First one was in June of 1970. I went to Hong Kong. And then the second one, the Commodore was really generous about that, went to Sydney. So my mother arranged by mail for me to meet her.