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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Tom Turkey"  wrote in message news:lpft54F6ss9U1@mid.individual.net...   
      
   On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:00:15 -0800, a425couple    
   wrote:   
      
   >Happy Veterans Day to all that served,   
      
      
   None of us enjoyed the SUCK!   
      
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   I didn't have it so bad. The Army gave me a good electronics education, made   
   me an E-5 so I could act independently, and sent me to Germany to fly or   
   drive around that beautiful country on repair missions. Otherwise I was on   
   call so I had to be able to drop whatever I was doing. I became the post   
   photographer, USO liaison and learned repair in the motor pool, plus was the   
   token well-behaved enlisted man at officers' functions like a banquet at   
   Heidelberg Castle.   
      
   For the first 2 weeks or so when I was in the photo lab there would be a   
   knock on the door, I'd open it to a black face, he'd see my white face and   
   silently leave. The previous black occupant had been a big time drug dealer   
   which explained the long row of empty cabinets.   
      
   I knew enough German to get along. Most Americans didn't and outside cities   
   the Germans didn't speak English or particularly need American money, so our   
   troops were left out of society to the extent that some re-uped to get back   
   to Nam.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)