History

[Captain Bob]

COCA COLA - The last Coke in a glass bottle I ever drank was from the nickel machine in the ROTC building at The Johns Hopkins University in April of 1965 when I reported in to take my commissioning oath as a 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, USAR after receiving formal notification of graduation. A year after that I was drinking Rum and Cokes in the officers’ club of the 1/9th Infantry (Manchu), 2nd Infantry Division, located just south of the DMZ, Republic of Korea. And a year after that I was drinking free Cokes in aluminum cans (when we could get them) as XO of 4/9th Infantry (manchu), 25th Infantry Division somewhere in the Delta southwest of Saigon, Republic of Vietnam. Several years later I experienced a period of depression and withdrawal when New Coke was introduced and they retired the original formula. Lately my doctor and the media all keep telling me I’ve got to quit drinking Diet Coke as it works against my losing weight... Yea sure!

RECYCLING - My company is located in Philadelphia and all my employees recycle - white paper, newspaper, cardboard, glass, tin cans and plastic - except for the plastic drink bottles which can be redeemed for 5 cents each. Several times a year my brother drives up to visit friends in Vermont and each trip he fills up the back of his car with 33 gallon trash bags full of empty soda bottles which he redeems somewhere up there. He says it covers his tolls and before gas skyrocketed it would pay that too, both going and coming back - now not so much, but still worth doing.