Reply #3: Thirty-nine years ago today ... [View All]

[TahitiNut]

... I was on my way back to Nam from a disastrous 'last-minute' R&R in Hawaii, where my 'bride' of slightly less than a year was able to muster up the self-sacrifice to make love (er... have "sexual relations" ... with me) once during a week in 'paradise' during which she made it pretty clear that she didn't want to be married. To me. Since we'd gotten married after nearly two years of engagement and only a couple of weeks before I reported to Oakland Army Base and flown to the Repo Depot in Bien Hoa, I had a hard time figuring out what I'd done ... or could do.

As I was flying back to Nam, little did I know I'd be "back on the block" in less than five days. DEROS'd. ETS'd. Early-out. No. I didn't know. (Yay, Nixon!) I really didn't know much of anything.

All I know was that I was on an airplane. Going to Viet Nam. For the third time in less than a year. I thought I'd be there for about seven more weeks. I was a two-digit midget. And I had no idea what I was going to do.

That was what I think of as my first Veterans Day.


Here's to better Veterans Days! :toast:

Welcome home, brothers!! :patriot:

Happy VD!! :party: