The Vietnam War also proved to be his demise in his later years. He died without his family ever knowing the death and tragedy he survived, but they know it was more than any young man should ever experience. He spent the next two years in Vietnam as a Combat Medic in a trauma unit treating soldiers that were severely wounded in the war. He packed his bags and boarded the plane. Like the man he was raised to be, he didn’t whine, he didn’t complain, and didn’t say poor me.

In 1965 he received an offer to study French culinary in Paris but his Uncle Sam had different plans and decided his talents were needed in Vietnam. Upon graduating high school, he enrolled in Delgado College in New Orleans with dreams of being an Executive Chef and Baker. He loved it so much that he decided to stay two extra years and graduated in 1963. He was a proud LaGrange Gator and really loved his school. His family moved back to Lake Charles when he was 12. That is where he established the work ethic that would carry him through the rest of his life. In the mornings before school, after school, and on weekends he worked picking cotton on his family’s farm. For the next 8 years he was a Mamou Green Demon, where he walked to school 5 miles up hill in the snow (both ways).

where he lived until he was 4 years old.Īt that age his life really began, in Mamou, La. Born Augto Axion and Hazel McGee of Lake Charles, La.

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