What an amazing list, and all too true!!!
answer the question "Where are you from?" with "I'm kinda from all over the place."
Born in England, raised in England, Africa, California, Mississippi, Ohio, and Arizona, entered the service in Phoenix, stationed in Kansas, Germany (twice), Maryland, Texas, California, and Arizona...gee, I'm from kinda all over!
at 22 you are trying to find someone in the military to marry so you can get a new I.D. card.
My oldest is 21, and is marrying a girl who is in the Az Army National Guard. To get an ID card? Well, I doubt it, but who knows?
HUMOR
TWO SEABEE BUDDIES AND I arrived in Sydney, Australia,
after combat duty in Vietnam. We rented the flashiest
civvies we could afford from the concession stand at the
military center and set out to explore the city.
Our first stop was a popular hotel bar. As we
shouldered our way through the throng, the bartender boomed
out, "Eh there, mates clear a way for the Yanks." The crowd
parted, and the bartender quickly set before us three pints
of Sydney's best. I inquired how he knew we were Americans.
"How'd I know you was Yanks?" he said. "I may not have
seen you before, but your suits've been here a dozen
times!"
--Contributed to "Humor In Uniform" by J. F. Leahy
Provided courtesy of Reader's Digest (
http://www.rd.com).