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I did not know he was in Vietnam.

9 posted on 04/12/2005 6:19:07 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)

He was in the service, but I didnt know he went to Nam. Wow.

12 posted on 04/12/2005 6:24:36 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican

One night he was on the wheel of the boat off of Miami and we had a lot of wind. His eyes really lit up and he was really enjoying it. He made the statement, "You know you control a lot of power when you are in control of a platoon of tanks". I laughed my rear end off at him.

I met him in about 1983. He used to dive a lot with a friend of mine who went to college with me at North Georgia College. He told me the story about winning the science award and meetin Von Braun. At that time the significance was lost on me. Also I might have been drunk. He also told me what it was like to work in a coal mine. Not fun.

18 posted on 04/12/2005 7:36:15 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (My US Army daughter outshot everybody in her basic training company.)

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