SCHOOL KEEPS MEMORIES OF VIETNAM KIAALIVE
Alicia Robinson, a 2014 graduate of Garinger High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, never knew Mike Smith, who graduated 50 years before she did. If she had, Robinson would have liked and respected him. “Pinky,” as his friends at Garinger called him, was a tough cookie, a hard worker and well-liked by all who knew him.
His closest buddy, Marine Vietnam veteran Don Mullis, said Pinky was walking to his own graduation when Don and his family picked him up on the street and took him to the ceremony. After graduating from
