Same to you Uncle.
Thanks, everyone, for the encouragement. The press conference went well though I haven’t seen a video of it. Gunny Ermey is a real hoot. He’s a Marine and a straightforward guy, no doubt about it. Congressman Walter Jones is a heck of nice guy as well.
Interestingly, at the get-together at a local watering hole afterwards, I bumped in to a guy who was a platoon-mate of my son’s about 6 years back! He spotted me - it’s sometimes a good thing to be a small, skinny, scruffy guy with a beard. :)