35thOVI  | 30 Mar 2024 8:54 a.m. PST |
March 29th, sorry a day late Vietnam War Veterans Day 🫡 |
| 14Bore | 30 Mar 2024 10:06 a.m. PST |
Missed it myself, certainly would have put the flag up.
And reading Triumph Forsaken by Mark Moyar on Vietnam 1954 – 65 |
| William Warner | 30 Mar 2024 10:19 a.m. PST |
I got news yesterday that I wouldn't need a root canal. I'll take that as reason enough to celebrate on Vietnam War Veterans Day. (former member of the "Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club") |
| TimePortal | 30 Mar 2024 10:29 a.m. PST |
Several segments about it was on TV during the past few days.
I am still bitter about the way soldiers were treated coming home.
I marched in the large Birmingham Veterans Day parade in 1972.
During the March, there were eggs thrown at our formation.
Military symbols vandalized including tanks at colleges and NG armories painted pink. So I just stay home. |
 McKinstry  | 30 Mar 2024 5:07 p.m. PST |
It's been over 52 years since I got back and to be honest, I'm not sure I knew there was such a thing. |
| Wolfhag | 31 Mar 2024 5:09 a.m. PST |
I didn't get the memo either. April is "Alcohol Awareness Month", and I will be celebrating that one for sure. Wolfhag |
| uglyfatbloke | 31 Mar 2024 9:22 a.m. PST |
X2 for Wolfhag. I too will be celebrating my awareness of alcohol. |
| Wolfhag | 31 Mar 2024 9:27 a.m. PST |
The thing that makes me most aware of alcohol awareness is the crushing hangover the next day. I've found from experience you only get a hangover when you stop drinking. Wolfhag |
| Ferd45231 | 31 Mar 2024 11:42 a.m. PST |
McKinstry
53 for me
There it is.
H |
 deadhead | 31 Mar 2024 11:43 a.m. PST |
Thing is, I like the taste of IPA, wine or an Old Fashioned/Manhattan/ Vodka Martini, dry with a twist. I do not drink to forget. I was lucky to avoid the need. My nightmares (and they are at least twice a week five years after retiring) are about operating lists or clinics in chaos…too like reality five years ago. But it still really gets to me. Irish genes. Skin cancers+++ but never a hangover. Seriously, never. |
