[GailA]

I try my best to vote Conservative Red. Like you, my hub, served in the USN for 20 years. 58-78.

[knarf]

I didn't serve that long, I went in at 17 in 1965, I came out three years later at 45 . . . WAY more input than a young Just pubescent man SHOULD have.

I enlisted when I couldn't drink, vote, marry, get a loan, own a gun (I got my DL on leave after Basic) and learned all about Viet Nam from returnees who drew no punches and talked freely with fellow soldiers.

I knew more in 1968/9 than anyone I could talk to . . . JUST like Nam vets.

They sent me to Korea instead of in country . . . . I was pretty scrambled when it was over (for me)