Memories of the times, JJ. Glad you survived to tell them. 
10 May 1970 was not nearly as exciting a day for me. I was 19 and going to college...well, barely anyway...and working as a tree trimmer because it paid really good money at the time. Little did I know that in 3 months I would be in-processing for BCT at Fort Ord, CA, going from a job paying over $7/hr (minimum wage was $1.40) to one paying $124/mo and beginning a journey in uniform that would last 23 years.
And so it...went...
Richard
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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