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Short round, you say I could be there with you? I don’t think so. Sorry you lost your fortune in that game. Speaking of traveling to warmer climates, I’d rather be with Ben and his buddies in Florida. Fishin’ and dodging gators, ahhhhh what a life!
dang cheeseheads–lost my last dollar to lt–but thats ok–jan and i will go to the food bank line–we will get by–somehow–maybe. enjoy spending all that $$$ lt. show tai the good life.
ben– jan and i are now in homestead visiting her mom and sis. got too chilly in az so had to fly here.
terry–if your out of practice cutting bamboo, feel free to visit here, now that your done moving. dang gals sure ain`t cutting a nice grunt like me any slack.
Chuck,
You must be on LSD and I don’t mean the road!
Hav’nt had a chance to read up on current c-2-1 news lately, been moving our bunker for the last 3 weeks.(Used to take one week but my body says I’m old and there’s lots more junk – I mean treasures?) Glad to see Ben & Marilyn are still honeymooning, sorry about his friends but bet they don’t miss the weather. You all should know that we hope for phone calls from those who attend the 196th Reunion up here in the Seattle area. Louise and I live about 30 miles from the hotel. Last but not least, we’ve been getting lots of snow too, it’s just not white like yours, too warm. Bye
Go BEARS>>>>>>
Been out of touch for a while – just moved to a new location just outside Daytona. Interesting to catch up here. There where a few days the only state in the US without snow was here in Florida. Have had a few days in the 80’s. Have had to use the A/C a few times.
We have revisited a few places here where we spent our honeymoon 37 years ago. No comments – my children may read this.
Having a great winter, but sad, 2 of my close farmer friends have died since we left home. Reaffirms our decision to do this now.
We got around 17 inches here, but the drifting is real special. The kids can’t play in the driveway due to avalanche hazzard…
We’ve got a couple of inches of ice, sleet and snow here in North Texas and it won’t get above about 16 today, then fall down next to zero again tonight.
I bought some new tire chains and couldn’t wait to try them out, so I spent 30 minutes hanging the damn things, then stopped 5 times in the first mile because they were slapping the inside of the fender well. I don’t care what the box says, they’re too big for my wheels. And, yes, I know how to hang iron ‘cuz I drove a truck all my life and have done it many times up in the high country.
Turned out that I didn’t need them anyhow as it’s cold enough that traction is pretty good, except in the places where it’s melting from the bottom up and has turned translucent. For you folks up in Yankee-land, down here in Texas we don’t wait for the plows and salt trucks cause they ain’t comin’. Not now, not ever. We use the religious method for clearing the roads: The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.
But, I now have plenty of beer and cigarettes, so I’m good to go.
Well guys this is one for the books! We got around 18 to 20 inches of snow throughout the whole area and drifts reported as high as 10 feet. As Russ said we just aren’t going anywhere for a while as many main roads are closed. I am going to wait several hours and then get the trusty snowblower going.
Chuck: they closed LSD last night and were about to open it this morning after clearing around 100 abandoned vehicles.. Sound familiar?? Heading for wind chills of 20 to 40 below zero tonite! Hey you chose to live where you do I guess!
only got to the low 60s today–dang this is a rough winter. good thing no white stuff falling.
…. a fridge full of beer, and a freezer full of Tombstones and we’re honkered down for the duration. I knew Wisconson was good something (did somebody say they had a football team ?). Blizzard through tomorrow and then 10 below tomorrow night. Airports and roads are shutting down so we couldn’t leave if we wanted to… As Tiny would say, those Canadians left the door open again.
Good thing for Global Warming or they would be using sled dogs in Miami.
LT… I remember the Chicago blizard in 67. As I recall, we got 26 inches in one day.
Today I heard that Chicago is expecting waves as high as 18 feet. Sounds like BS to me. there should be an ice cap about a quarter mile out by this time of year.
Chuck,
The total in 67 was I believe 23 inches. There isn’t any ice on Michigan at this time maybe due to a lot of wind previously. It is snowing and blowing like a bandit out right now!
It’s colder than snot here in North Texas too. The low tonight is forecast to be about 6 or so, with chill factors well below zero. It won’t get back above freezing until probably Saturday. We’ve got about 2 or 3 inches of ice, sleet and snow.
Oh well! In spite of what people think about Texas, it really isn’t all that uncommon and we can deal with it. If the power goes off or the pipes freeze, Granny and I will just “sling iron” on the pickup and head out for Galveston where we can stay warm until it passes.
Hey Chuck,
You need to hurry back home to Chicago as we are going to have a blizzard that may rival the one of ’67. We are expecting 16-20 inches of snow across the area with heavier possible in Chicago proper with strong winds and drifts of 5-10 feet. Isn’t life grand! Take the 18 degrees it won’t last forever.
I just checked DaNang weather….. It will be in the 60s and 70s the next few weeks…..
Hey….. what’s the deal with global warming? tomorow night is supposed to get down to 18 degrees in San Antonio…… WTF
LT….. I looked at Chicago and it looks like 4 degrees on Tuesday and then 6 degrees on Wednesday.
i like that if you don’t see an answer //scrool down you might of missed it
I can’t imagine soldiers cavorting with ladies of the evening! What IS the world coming to? LOL
I don’t want to call any names (wink, wink), but I know of a guy who slipped under the wire in Danang to visit a house of ill repute who not only got laid, but got mugged by a gang of children to boot. Yes…children, not a one of which was probably more than 10 or 12. Unless you’ve had 8 or 10 of the little tykes suddenly spring upon you, you have no idea how heavy their collective weight is, nor how quickly they can take you to the floor and go through your pockets. :-0 🙂
Another guy, who shall also remain nameless, found himself being hunted by the VC at a Danang cathouse and had to spend the night underneath the floor hiding from them. He and his girl appeared at the main gate to Camp Perdue the next morning, wrapped in a blanket and nekkid as the day they were born. He had only a loaded .45.
John;
I was on that mission, too. I believe that we were providing security for some unit that had a patch that looked like a heart. (I’m a bit older now, and can’t remember the unit), but I do remember that was the first time that I had actually run across “donut dollies”. I was a Medic, and carried my “Boom Boom Box” It had Pennicillin, sterile water, and all the things that grunts needed when they were about to bend the pipes in two. Ah, those were yhe good ole days.
What’s a prostitue? Is that like a “lady of the night’? or “street coner Cinderella”?
I never went to a prostitute in the Nam….. They told us in training that we could get an incurable disease……our family would be told we were dead ……and we would spend the rest of our lives on an island with other victims….Then I heard other stories of VC women putting tubes filled with razor blades in their vaginas…..Hey, I still don’t know if that one is true or not!
Chuck, that was probably about the time we returned from our Bangkok mission……..coincidentally of course.
talk about prostitutes, I recall C-2-1 securing the highest VD rate in the Battalion one month in late 69 or early 70. it kinda burns just thinking about it.
John,
Welcome to the C/2/1 web site! Hope you can raise up some of your brothers on here! We would love have all of you!
Some time in 1972 my platoon, 2/A/2-1INF was attached to Charlie for a security mission at some airfield and arty compound on the coast in DaNANG. I think we were there about 1-2 weeks and then were re-attached to Alpha. Remember doing guard on one of the gates, bunkers on the perimeter and rounding up and controlling the prostitutes who were trying to make a living.
John;
I was on that mission, too. I believe that we were providing security for some unit that had a patch that looked like a heart. (I’m a bit older now, and can’t remember the unit), but I do remember that was the first time that I had actually run across “donut dolliesâ€. I was a Medic, and carried my “Boom Boom Box†It had Pennicillin, sterile water, and all the things that grunts needed when they were about to bend the pipes in two. Ah, those were yhe good ole days.
lt–not to burst your bubble but STEELERS will win–
Short Round I think your are right the jarhead I work with still doesn’t want to do anything.
Hey Guys! Just made reservations on AMTRAK for the grandson and I to travel from Chicago to Seattle in July to attend the 196 LIB reunion. Really looking forward to both the long ride and the reunion. Go Packers!!
walt–will be interesting–the pitts running back meeting clay mathews. pitts will still win it.
reason there wasn`t much there—what did you expect ??? the jarheads to do some work ?