"Thank you for your service Howie66."
Thank you for your comments.
My only regret is that I didn't follow the lead of General H. Norman Schwartzkopff.....
After his second tour in Vietnam, he seriously considered resigning his commission as an Officer in the United States Army. He came within a blonde hair of doing so and then had this idea: Were he to do so, he would no longer be in a position to do anything about the state of the U.S. Army at that time.
At that time morale in the military was in the crapper, thanks in large part to the existing MSM and the efforts of the ilk that support "people" such as Hanoi John Kerry, Walter Cronkite, and Hanoi Jane Fonda.
General Schwartzkopff (Captain at this point of time, if I'm not mistaken) decided that by quitting the Army, he would let the real enemies of our country win. He decided to stay in.
My true regret is that I took the easy way out and left after my initial enlistment was up. Who knows what contributions I could have made had I stayed in the Corps? I was a good Marine and cared deeply for the men that I served with.
If I could only turn back the hands of time.......
I read Schwartzkopf's autobio.
I think that I like him , but I am not sure,,,, politicians get stars and all that....
You sound like someone that persons close to me might like to know.
Thanks again.