I, too, have a similar memory. In 15 months I think I got to make two of them. A real treat at the time. Then I reflect on the almost instant and continual commo the troops have from Iraq and realize how much our world has changed in 40 years.
It's amazing to think of the changes that we've seen in the past couple of decades. When I started working with electronics in my high school years (mid-1970s) tubes were still common, our family had owned a color TV for only a couple years, and I had never seen a computer outside of the movies.
GREAT tagline, btw.