More detail on this person: Natural causes at
the VA Hospital in Loma Linda, CA.Harry F.
Askildsen from Highland, California is my father.
He had two daughters. My sister Kelley Askildsen,
born in `66 and myself Cara Askildsen, born in
`69. He is still so alive in my heart but
unfortunately died of natural causes in `90 at age
41. He was extraordinary, fascinating, successful
in business, AMAZING.... but he had a strong
liking for alchohol and chose to have a delicate
surgery around his liver that he did not survive.
I miss him so much and have needed him so many
days to show me "HOW THE CROWS IT THE
CORN" he would say, or "WAKE UP, YOU'RE
WASTING YOUR LIFE AWAY", at 6:30 in the
morning on a Sunday. He was a man who always
had a buck knife strapped to his ankle under a
three-piece suit, would just as soon kill ya' as
look at you, but risk his life for a stranger. He
is a HERO. Always a hero and when it really
counted he was truly a superhero. I recall
driving down Euclid Ave. in Upland where we lived
and the rains caused deep floods rushing down the
street that swept a woman up and carried her a
block or so to where my Dad saw her first, she was
hanging on and ready to go into the drainage
gutter and he must not of thought twice about the
situation because before I knew what was going on
there was my Dad IN ACTION saving this woman's
life up to his waist in water. It was cool. She
never even said thank you he said. He saved her
life. She was drowning. Oh well. It was cool.
My father, (Cpt.) Harry F. Askildsen was born
August 15, 1947 and died at Loma Linda Veterans
Hospital in Loma Linda, California on June 2,
1990. He is buried at Riverside National Cemetary
in Riverside, California. He was a Cobra Pilot.
I have his helmets and jumpsuits, flight maps of
Vietnam, manuals and flight ring, photos of him
and others in Vietnam, year book, field manuals,
as well as his medals and other military things
that he always kept. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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