Bruce's Journal

[Bruce]

Hmmm, there seems to be a theme!

 

[greybeard]

Hmmm, there seems to be a theme!

Not for me. I had, from a young age wanted to become a Marine and no matter what was happening within my family, I intended to and did enlist as soon as I came of age.
I did kinda feel bad leaving my brother with so much work, but well..he figured it out.

 

[Rammy]

Teehee!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Mother of a marine here, he did six years and got out on 9/11/01 called and told me because of what just happened, he was re enlisting.... i told him the world had just changed, and no please don't stay, come home to your new wife. And that was the last time he listened to his mother.

 

[Mike CHS]

I don't mind saying that I enlisted in the Navy to avoid being drafted to serve in the Army. I graduated in 1969 but the class of 1968 had 6 of the 18 males get drafted and 5 of those were killed in Viet Nam. I didn't care for those odds so I entered into a delayed enlistment program with the Navy in January 1969 with a scheduled arrival at Boot Camp Great Lakes in June of 1969 about 3 days after graduation.

 

[Mike CHS]

Bruce, what have you been using for your ground hogs?

 

[greybeard]

I don't mind saying that I enlisted in the Navy to avoid being drafted to serve in the Army. I graduated in 1969 but the class of 1968 had 6 of the 18 males get drafted and 5 of those were killed in Viet Nam. I didn't care for those odds so I entered into a delayed enlistment program with the Navy in January 1969 with a scheduled arrival at Boot Camp Great Lakes in June of 1969 about 3 days after graduation.

Odds and the prospect of death never entered my mind, back then or since. I know a handful of my graduating class and the one previous died or were wounded in Vn but within my own family, it was only an issue to my parents and sisters, specifically to my mother who had lived thru WW2 and seen the many service flags with the gold stars. My father accepted it as an inherent risk of the times, as he had during WW2.

Killed in Vn from the town I went to high school,but not necessarily from my or the previous graduating class...on search The Wall by city and state:
2LT JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER Jr
SSG ARTHUR W DRYNAN
CPT ROYAL CLIFTON FISHER Jr
PFC ROBERT LAWRENCE HALE
PFC VICTOR JAMES HUMPHREY
CPL CHARLES HOWARD KILGORE
SP4 DANIEL PENA Jr
PFC THURSTON CRAIG ROBERTS
PFC JAKE A SIMMONS
PFC ROGER WAYNE SMELSER
SP4 ALBERT WILBER SONNIER
SP4 GEORGE OWEN SPANGLER
SP4 NOE TAMEYOZA
SGT RONALD FREDERICK WILDER

 

[Bruce]

Bruce, what have you been using for your ground hogs?

To trap them? Originally the layer feed worked well. Maybe because the little bastards were raiding the feeder daily. That didn't work this year but they went for the all stock sweet feed.

Have you gotten visitors of that nature?

 

[Mike CHS]

There is at least one left down by our storm drain. I just looked at the havahart site and they listed a few things that I'll try.

 

[Mini Horses]

Your daughter could join the military as an officer with a degree. Travel the world, have room & board & medical provided. Write fantasy in her off time hours. AND get a paycheck.