I was at the cumming antique show today. I came across this Oct 1967 issue of LIFE magazine.
The cool part of this story is I know the man on the cover. One of my best friends dad. U.S. Marine Cruz Acuna. No longer with us past away about 12 years ago. He was a great guy I was around him from the time I was about 7 to 18 until his death. He didn't even know he was in a magazine let alone on the cover of the most popular magazine of the time until about 8 months after he got back state side. He was in a barber shop waiting his turn and saw himself laying on the table. What a way to find out you mad the cover of LIFE!.
Anyway I am very happy to own it and am going to build a shadow box I think and hang it in the gun room. Best $10 bucks I may have ever spent.
Edit: Pretty sure this is the first time I have actually held a copy. The copy at his house was always kind of sacred and even as a young kid I knew better then to risk holding it.
The cool part of this story is I know the man on the cover. One of my best friends dad. U.S. Marine Cruz Acuna. No longer with us past away about 12 years ago. He was a great guy I was around him from the time I was about 7 to 18 until his death. He didn't even know he was in a magazine let alone on the cover of the most popular magazine of the time until about 8 months after he got back state side. He was in a barber shop waiting his turn and saw himself laying on the table. What a way to find out you mad the cover of LIFE!.
Anyway I am very happy to own it and am going to build a shadow box I think and hang it in the gun room. Best $10 bucks I may have ever spent.
Edit: Pretty sure this is the first time I have actually held a copy. The copy at his house was always kind of sacred and even as a young kid I knew better then to risk holding it.
