Category: Geezer Alert!

I have been invited to lunch this Monday  at the local elementary school here in WV by  the 8 or 9  year old son of a friend! It is for Veterans Day.

I’ve already admitted to being a bit uncomfortable  with this sort of thing.  Toss in a near total lack of experience with yungins and “uncomfortable” may not be the proper word.

Now I’ll be clean and wear clean clothes so I shouldn’t smell too bad. I’ve got a blue chambray shirt with NAVY on the pocket and I’ll have my Dixie Cup , etc. AND I won’t tell Sea Stories that begin with “This Ain’t No Sh#t!” The event is scheduled to last 1/2 hour.

So folks… If you have any pertinent experience – Some  Dos and Don’ts – PLEASE?

ETA: I won’t be making any any formal speeches, just lunch – indeed there will other Vets there.

 

If one accepts Darwinism/evolution as fact (some don’t) this has got to be a bellwether.

“The essence of my proposition is simple”, says the Chairwoman Of Parliamentary Commission on Women’s affairs, Children and Family, Yelena Borisovna Mizoulina. “Each female citizen of Russia will be able to receive by mail the genetic material of the President, get pregnant from him and have a baby. These mothers will be receiving special allowances from the government.”

Folks like the Koch brothers and secret societies have probably been doing this for years so it is good that the Russians catch up. I’ll bet that Little Kim guy in North Korea is on board too.

I considered expanding this notion further myself, but decided to leave The Dream to you folks.

A million Obama kids born each year, etc. Our Trio in the millions – and nary a CPO among them, etc……

 

 

Where else can you so easily discuss music, electrons, valor thieves, politics, etc.

Yeah, I get to post (thank you Jonn), but I’d be here regardless. If diversity is a label – TAH has it. Maybe not quite what the PC folks intend, but the way I prefer.

Jonn, take a bow. If ya can – ya cutie you.

Some time back the MilBlog had a valuable purpose. I’ve always considered the notion as an important adjunct to Real Life for REAL vets. Jonn has allowed that important notion to blossom.

Thank You!

I think I posted about this before, but it happened again today and I STILL get rattled when it happens – enough to post about it yet again.

Some back-story: For 30 plus years I didn’t acknowledge my Vietnam service outside of some very narrow confines.  BTW –  The only VN mud I got on me was during a one-time trip to a bar in DaNang .

Around the time we did GoE (Gathering of Eagles in ’07) it kinda felt okay to do so.  A coupla years ago I bought a baseball cap (made in China?) , and I wear it often.

So today I visited my local Mini-Mart and a guy also checking out said “Thank you for your service.” I had enough wits to respond with “Thanks, we all did what we could.” But THEN he added “I hope you didn’t get greeted like some did?”

By this time there were, maybe, a half dozen folks standing there and I kinda blurted out ” Got spit at and called Baby Killer once in San Fransisco in ’69.”  Noted some odd looks from the mini-group and left.

Yeah, I know the PC answer to the “Thank You…” is a simple “you’re welcome”, but I still get flummoxed and fumble.

Just might be too old to learn proper decorum?

My headline is no joke; although when I first read the actual headline “Tabasco sauce used to train Ebola health care workers” all kinds of strange thoughts ran thru my head.

The opening paragraph clears the matter up some.

“It may sound strange, but Tabasco hot sauce is proving to be a successful training aid for health care workers learning how to avoid contamination when taking care of patients with the Ebola virus.”

The idea is kinda neat, but my first thought flashed on a myth(?) that the Tabasco Sauce in C-Rats was there to kill bacteria IN THE C-Rats and sadly went downhill from there.

Anyway, read the story…  it really is an imaginative way to use the stuff.

ETA: A memory (or maybe a memory OF a memory) can be strangely wrong at times. I would have bet money, and lost, that Tabasco Sauce was included in C-rats. Keeping in mind that it was more a curiosity in The TGYC and never primary rations; I DO recall the tiny bottles in conjunction with the ration packs BUT they were not, as far as my Google-Fu allows, ever directly issued with the things.

Yeah, I know… two  posts in one day… If Jonn don’t delete this you just might just learn something.

An online pal of mine (TGYC) is mentioned is this story. Simply put… I was unaware of this event until he mentioned it.

“Hannah Ackerman, a Cedar Falls High School graduate now attending Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, has won history awards for her presentations on two naval disasters. One is the loss of Waterloo’s five Sullivan brothers during World War II. The other is the “missing 74” of the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans during the Vietnam War.”

During that time frame I was doing other stuff, like Woodstock, etc.

This has merit. The lost were deployed.

 

Some here have actually jumped out of perfectly good aircraft. I planned to do a tandem jump on my 65th birthday a few years ago and even invited Jonn to join me, but it never happened. I wanted to jump into my big field for my birthday party, but the cost was toooo steep.  I still aim to try it on my 70th in a coupla years, BUT it sure ain’t gonna be like this!!

“A helium-filled balloon carried him 135,908 feet to nearly the top of the stratosphere  — more than 25 miles — above the ground, before he cut himself loose and plunged toward the earth at speeds that peaked at more than 800 miles per hour.”

Of course going faster than the speed of sound has one benefit… no one can hear me screaming.