Posted on 07/27/2006 7:13:43 AM PDT by ErnBatavia
I was just a sweet little girl that just had her fourth brithday.
Thank you for making it so I could have so many more in such a free country.
Then, shoot, I was only 3.
No wonder this is a day seared in your memory. Everything became "before" July 27, 1966 or "after" July 27, 1966. I bet on that day your brain never gave a thought to 2006. What a ride we all have taken since the '60s.!
Marines frighten me
LOL!!!!
I was awaiting my 7th birthday about 2 weeks from then....
Thank you and all the others who will contribute to this thread for your service. Happy Anniversary!
I don't think I'll ever be able to hear that song again without seeing that picture in my mind.
Right as ITR ended, he got busted (undoubtedly drunk and disorderly in Oceanside), so he was Private General James.
Congrats on your anniversary. Just yesterday I suddenly remembered that it was fifty years ago this month that I arrived at Wheelus Air Base, in Tripoli, Lybia to begin an 18 month assignment. Time really flies.
God,18 months in Libya couldn't have been a lot of fun. Needless to say,there was no AC...or was there?
They frightened a whole bunch of us, especially during the first few months.
More than a few of my buddies had absolutely no memory of the first 2 or 3 days of "Shock and Awe"...I remember every damn second, however - including the first night when they bedded us down in some platformed tent barracks and a few maggots sobbed themselves to sleep (as in "What the f*ck have I gotten myself into??") - and predawn when 4 or 5 Drill Instructors plowed in yelling at the top of their lungs, and tipping over the first 2 or 3 rows of racks....controlled mayhem on their part.
Thank you for your service and Happy Anniversary. We're grateful for your sacrifices.
"Marines frighten me."
Why, I wonder? Is it because of the steely-eyed killer look, or the fact that they're about the only ones left who know what to do in a bayonet fight?
Semper Fi,
Terms that I either hadn't heard before that date, or that, at the very least, gained new meaning:
Scumbag....pukeface....maggot....sweetheart....Bend over and spread your cheeks....skin it back and milk it down....house mouse....get on your face....burn one; non smokers brush your fangs....sh*tcan....
The list goes on and on.
Happy Anniversary Ern and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your service to our country!
I regret that Jack Murtha and John Kerry could not approve this message.
Good one Spirit! ;*)
Sept 13 1966
I entered Naval Training Center, Great Lakes
One day before I turned 18 therefore,
per Congressional Law,
I was I got out 1 day before I turned 21
I joined the Navy to see the world
BUT they didn't tell me it would be a "working cruise" LOL
BTTT
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