I’ll be 67 this year. When I go to Tennessee to visit my Mom, I get carded in the package store (”It’s a stupid law but we have to follow it”).
BTW, whenever I pour Mom her evening glass of wine, she asks “Son, how much longer do we have this Obama in the White House & how in the hell did he get elected twice?”
My wife & I answer “weak Republicans & more takers than makers” to her second question.
Anyway, I had walked into Whole Foods expecting some greying freak to scream “babykiller! war criminal! fascist pig!” Hasn’t happened yet but I do get some dirty looks from well dressed liberal women in the organic aisle.
;^)
Heh.
As far as the guys in the rear taking care of the gear, we mostly had envy. A couple guys I knew put in for embassy school and got accepted. One SOB got stationed in Copenhagen, while the rest of us went to RVN. Can you believe that shiite?
Another guy turned out to have a talent for language and spent his enlistment at the Naval War College in Monterey.
We sure never held it against them, except for that bastard in Copenhagen..............