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Originally posted by MARINEVET James:
We do our best at staying safe over here...certainly no heroics at this age, but as you and the others well-know, there's always risk about...incoming, IEDs, stray SAF...etc.
Beau:
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Then too, when I was in High School, I was more the "Jam" than the "Rah Rah"...so maybe there's still some sort of hood (hoodlum) thing going on there?!?!?!?! Never have any problem with folks there, however, and is usually an enjoyable time. Just don't think it's ever possible to really "go back" or "go home" after being away so long...seeing so many things the folks who stayed around there will never see...etc.
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year.
Semper Fi from the Cold (in the 30s) and Windy Sands of Kandahar,
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Colonel .... jeeze, I still cant call you Wayne like EXLRRP did. I guess in some ways their is hardwiring with the formal military protocal ... kind of runs agin the grain with my Rebel without a Cause purpose.
You know that on my Litter sojourns I do send "up" positive requests (call them "prayers") for you and yours (keep his wife and daughter etc safe ... keep the colonel intact, etc) ... this sunday morning I put in about 2 hours of cleaning one of my Train station's driving lots ... jeeezee the booze bottles, beer cans, Wendys burger bags, Diapers, etc that I pick up ... there is alot of low life/enemy in our country (parking lots to) ... so, I did my positive duty and included you and yours in my "prayers" along with alot of others ... and it is alone time for me to look back at the litter in my own brain and how I may have littered up others lives, directly and indirectly ... I do believe we will all have Life Reviews before "The Light" ... sure dont hurt to have some Liter sojourns and introspection on your side, si, or no ? The positive things like you and others are doing there ... maybe it is slow progress but its better than a fast assault our homeland had (perhaps) we/you guys not done the deed ? .... yah, I think so.
Yah, you cant "go home" and if the old "home" crowd comes to find me ... then in a way it helped me edit that past life ... it's like telling the young kid back then, the one still inside ... "yah, you were right in splitting town as soon as high school was over ... you were right in breaking off from certain crowds, even if there was ugly alone time ..." Well, I think one can edit the past ... as if past, present and future are just richocheting around.
A "jam" is a bad boyz ?
Hope yah diitnt too much incoming last night .... Happy New Year !
Yes ... some folks that stuck out the home town ... like that guy ... never lived in another state, never took higher education, never went to other countrys in a warzone ... just remained stuck (no classic music, no classic art and doodles, no adventures .... but they have a house and Wal Mart kitchen decour).
Beau
POST SCRIPT (6:00 P.M. PAC) .... I had the most wonderful talk to the kid ... and it was to, rather than with, though a with triggered the to) ... I impress me.
POST POST SCRIPT (9:52) ... AH, 2007 is going to be a better year ! SETTING THE STAGE: There is a County Fair in my town and that means Race Horses ... and that means there is a long time Steak and Seafood Bar and Restaraunt that was at one time a local Grill and old stlye pub but now turned Upscale ... BUT THE OLD SIGNAGE is still there on the exterior ... it is "Hap's" ... the sign runs vertical with a green neorn Horse head at the top and "Hap's" lettering running vertical, with a red neon cocktail glass with a red Swizzle stick in it running perpendicular to the lettering ... and at the bottom, the words "Steak and Seafood" ... now in my talk with my daughter, I said "inside I am still at various ages ..." ... and lord when I was free and late 20s, me and me boyz went into "Hap's" of the old times before the Upscale disease hit ... when it was a bar and a few dinner tables and on weekends a Country Band played, all decked out with a dude in a Toupee and Electric Guitar ... and a dance floor ... and I clearly remember doing something equivalent to a "dirty dance" with a lass ... and some patron said "I liked that" .... Well, for years now the "little woman" at home has been telling me to take her to the Upscale "Hap's" ... tonight we went with the daughter ... not exactly like the old days but me lady got a big kick outta it ... "finally took me to Hap" .... (and I looked through the fancy glass partition and swear I saw this late 20ish young brown lad, dirty dancin with a willing lass ... and I smiled.
Sal Si Puedes