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Originally Posted by Bruce Day
well thanks, guys. I was only one of many. My Blackberry cell phone at 3 years old just plain died, so got a new I phone and still setting it up. Up in Taos, a favorite place, for the trout waters and saw Arlo Guthrie and the Burns Sisters last night. Back to Kansas tomorrow. Still a little sore on the left foot but not bleeding now and I think I could do the Marine basic end march in a couple weeks. Francis, care to join me next year?
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-- Thanks, Colonel. I may just do that, I try to walk every day- BUT it was back in the 1960's we did the 20 miler with full pack, Garand and the D.I.'s even checked our canteens to see they were full. Ever since Boot Camp, I have never "cut corners" on boots- Russell, Red Wing, Gokey-and you'll find few Gyrenes/ Army Infantry or Airborne Veterans who didn't learn that lesson. And, if the Genie of the lamp grants me 3 wishes, one of them just might be a late season Kansas pheasant hunt with you, Charlie Herzog, Dr. Jim and John Dunkle. We had a preserve Club hunt last Sat- some snow skiffs, wind- blue sky- BUT-- that's "Country Club" hunting.
Arlo Guthrie is still alive and pickin' out his 1970's stuff?? Every year on Thanksgiving Day a local GR radio station has an "Alice's" marathon several times- almost 20 minutes of pickin' the same Travis style three-finger riff-Wow, don't know how (or why) he did it.
All Veterans owe you and all the Marines and Rangers a salute for the honor you paid to the brave men who died at the hands of the Japanese on not only the Battan Death march following the fall of the Phillipines, but during the entire Second World War- Pacific TO. I have always put the 1959 movie "The Bridge On The River Kwai" in my Top Ten all time great movie list- BUT-- a real Japanese Col. (even if educated in London and fluent in English as was Col. Saito) would not have hesitated to have the British officers machine gunned to death for refusing to do manual labor. And there would have been no Captain Clifton, the medical Officer or sick bay hut- if you didn't work, you didn't eat and either starved to death, died of typhus and got a bullet in the head. The SS and the Gestapo in the European TO were no better, to be fair minded- They machine gunned the escapees they rounded up after the Great Escape. The "Geneva Convention" was window dressing, all wars bring out the absence of humanity of men caught in up in armed conflict!