"Sharkbait" wrote in message
news:XGSMj.6486$iI3.986@trnddc06...
>I spent almost three years over there between 1968 and 1971 and lost many
>friends. I got over it, married a fine Chinese-Vietnamese woman and never
>looked back. I hope you recover from your demons and wish you well.
>
No demons, and I've had a good life since. It was an educational
experience, culturally enriching by some standards. The affair, not my part
in it, cost me a best man and two former roommates, enough of a price to
cause one to remember, and the Delta and Camau were strange and dark places,
even for me who had spent much of my youth in the bays and backwaters of the
Texas Gulf Coast, in topography and vegetation much the same. My arrival
was in the days so early that casualties (at least the US brand) were
extremely infrequent, but that was not true in the case of other
participants, a large number of whom were left there in the muck.
These days, I'd just as soon fish Matagorda Bay....
TMO
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