[wardaddy]

That's very interesting.

Your experience is quite different than my father in law who served in combat in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam (2 tours). He says there were no women in combat that he saw in any of those conflicts. Career NCO and tough as nails. He like nearly every other American ground combat vet I know disagree completely with your relatively unique experience.

I have no idea where Braddocks Landing or Victoria Blvd. are but the sentiment is heartwarming.

[JackelopeBreeder]

New era, perhaps. Definitely new people and less politically correct people. My grandfather served in WW II and died in Korea as an Army surgeon; my father served in Korea as gunner on a B-29 and two tours in Vietnam as a Jolly Green Giant medic.

For local interest ask your wife. Braddock's Landing is at the end of Victoria Boulevard and Bridge Street in Hampton. Blackbeard's Point is just about three hundred yards east of there, just past the end of Columbia. A big magnolia now grows where his head was displayed. I can almost recite the proud history of VMI and walk blindfolded through every battlefield in the Old Dominion without stubbing a toe.