[doorgunner69]

Thanks, but I was a 17 year old kid when I volunteered. Not like I knew what the heck I was doing, in the larger sense of things.

Proud of it now as I approach 2.3 of a century of life, but you have to be realistic of how things were. Best I can say is I refused to take the easy way out and avoid things.

No hero here, not even close.

[Ron H.]

No hero here, not even close.

Don't be too modest. At least you didn't high tail it to Canada or Oxford or other parts unknown like many back in our day. You served.