40 years ago tomorrow, two people left government service.

[Jackpine Radical]

One was Lyndon Baines Johnson. The other was me. On January 20, 1969, the US Army extracted its fangs from me and allowed me to limp off into blessed oblivion. I just remembered that today.

[Zomby Woof]

1. Thank you for your service

What a ride blessed oblivion has been for you. :toast:

[lonestarnot]

2. Oh and don't forget your free damn donut tomorrow!

:toast: :donut:

[dweller]

3. Having listened to you here (read?) for quite awhile

i seem to have missed that particular story in detail in your past, or else you just didn't fill the group in on it.

care to elaborate?

i'm listening... :toast: :patriot:

dp

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I was drafted in February 1967, went to Vietnam

as a groundpounder in July, spent a year on a hiking and camping tour of Indochina, returned to the States in July '68, and was assigned to Ft. Hood, TX from then until I got a few days shaved off my term of active duty in order to go back to school as a second-semester senior. They let me go on January 20, 1969.