was stationed at Fort Hood.

Of course they passed along their desire to PFC Rottenborn.

"We want to meet Elvis" they said. John advised them the base PX (Post Exchange) had a large cafeteria.

"Go to that," he instructed his family, "Elvis eats there everyday at 11:15 a.m."

The Rottenborns arrived at the PX at 11:10 a.m. and Joe explained, "A 1956 black Cadillac limousine pulled in. There were three folks inside."

The three were Elvis, the driver/bodyguard and a girlfriend of Elvis' visiting from Memphis - a piece of information Rottenborn didn't obtain until later.

Elvis was 23, a rock star, a movie star, incredibly famous. Rottenborn recalled his hair was "very closely cropped (like all soldiers) and lighter in the hot sun, indeed it looked sort of blondish-brown. We were standing nearthe door of the PX and my father spoke to him.

"'Elvis, Salem, Ohio, we're big fans, we saw you at Miami Beach, we saw you at the movie theater.'"

That was in 1957.

Rottenborn explained that theater was about the size of the State Theater in Salem and when they saw him in Miami Beach it was after he made his famous appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Rottenborn said that after the show his mother and father stayed in the theater for the second show.

"Elvis replied, 'I remember those shows.'"

"Elvis was very cordial and respectful to my parents and addressed my mother as 'Ma'am' and then they went into the PX and ordered lunch," Rottenborn said. He recalled that Elvis didn't speak to him at that time "if memory