[sionnsar]

Didn't understand until I put the years together. Came home a vet in '71? Not good timing there.

Or maybe I still don't understand.

[sionnsar]

Guess everyone's gone. Machts nichts, I'll be gone soon enough myself.

Tomorrow or whenever y'all.

[NicknamedBob]

"Came home a vet in '71? Not good timing there. Or maybe I still don't understand."

Overanalysis. It's a joke.

This one is in the same category:

A newly appointed Indian Agent was interviewing people on the Reservation. He asked one individual what he had for breakfast.

"Eggs"

Then he asked about the method of preparing the eggs. Before the answer could be given, the conversation was interrupted by an emergency message requiring the Agent to immediately return to Washington.

Seven years later, the same Agent returned to the same Reservation. Again he wished to interact with the residents, but he also wanted to show that he had learned something about being an Indian Agent. He raised his hand in greeting and said "How!"

The individual responded, "Scrambled."

[stand watie]

in other words, not even his friend from HS had noticed that he was GONE for 30 YEARS.

i suspect that MOST people in my "little dinky hometown" haven't missed/don't remember me either. (fyi, that's why RVN vets frequently say to other vets, "WELCOME HOME, my brother/sister". - 'cause NOBODY but your family CARES, if they do!)

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

one of the other "inside jokes" among GIs of the RVN period was/is:

"His Honor the Mayor" speaking at the steps of City Hall said, "Boys as you leave us to go off to defend our nation in VietNam, let me tell you that 100% of our citizens are truly behind you. And the father you go the farther behind you that we'll be."

free dixie,sw