posted 11-15-2004 12:59 PM         

....I was spending my first full day as a civilian in several years, and was traveling from San Antonio, Texas back to my home in Indiana...I was pushing the 340 'CUDA as hard as I could go the entire trip, all 19 hours, and not get a ticket....we hardly stopped for food, just gas and snacks for the trip....
...I threw all my extra military uniforms in the dumpster at the apartment complex several days before getting discharged....the day I was discharged I took extra clothes to the office and when I was through with all the processing I went into the restroom and changed into "civies"..... I left my last uniform, hat, shoes, and belt in the waste basket at my desk.....it was sort of a tradition in my office....I will never forget how good it felt to be free from tan uniforms and the weekly haircuts....it was over a year before my next haircut and it still seems to me that one haircut per year is just about "plenty".....

....I remember Pink Floyd was still on the Darkside of the Moon, Elton was leaving the Yellow Brick Road and the Allmans Brothers were still singin "Ramblin' Man".........

....Damn, I was glad to be on the road again...........

...has it REALLY been THIRTY YEARS ????

posted 11-15-2004 02:41 PM         

In November 1974 I was playing military (USAF) football in Germany - Hahn Hawks! We went undefeated. I couldn't take that kind of punishment these days...

The barber on base had to use thinning shears on the top of my head because my hear was so thick. Now there's little that remains up there.

I wasn't driving a "Cuda, I was driving an old Mercury Comet Caliente.

posted 11-15-2004 03:20 PM         

...I played baseball while overseas(Taiwan).....our team was called "the Green Weenies".....green weenies were sort of an occupational hazzard for many servicemen stationed in the land of the $2. hookers.......