As many of you know, I've been working on the membership list in my spare time. When i got to Richard Dean, there wasn't much hope. . . no address, no email address, no mention of any contact really. 
But, there was a phone number and I called and left a msg. 
Didn't expect to hear back. 
A couple hours later I got this call our of the blue from a cheerful-sounding old paratrooper! 
It seems Richard L. Dean joined the Army immediately after 9/11 and served for 12 years. He was in the 82nd and suffered a back injury that caused him to be medically discharged. But he's still kicking. 
He lives in NC and wants to continue to be a part of the Chicago Chapter even if he can't make it here often, or at all.  
It makes me feel old to think he joined after 9/11 and could have served 20 and been retired a few years ago. 
I was about a month or two from retiring when the whole world-trade-center thing happened.