Les
Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back..

Peter

It's been fun, but heading back in a day or two. Also looking at moving to the Orlando area. I thought it might be good to be closer to retirees like me. My son and I will be exploring the area between Orlando and Tampa, but close to Tampa, in the coming days and weeks.

Sometimes, it's funny when you reach the age of what just happened. People, well some people, make life much more complex that it is or that it needs to be. It would be funny if they were old like me, but it's folks a decade or two before retirement who haven't a clue about life, and a history to prove it.

Several things happened during my time in the Army that are funny and almost cringe worthy...being offered a purple heart for needing stiches to close a wound, when I forgot to duck entering a radio room in Nam to answer a distress call...it knocked me on my butt. When the Colonel's driver approached me I thought he was joking and laughed, but he informed me it was no joke. Well, yes it was. Anyway, I turned it down, so they awarded me an ACM. Funny thing was the driver was later wounded and continued to unload a truck during a Viet Cong attack. He earned his purple heart and bronze star. Someone recently asked me what I had done to be awarded the Commendation ..."Beats the hell out of me." Doing my job, and fifty plus years later I still don't get it. The military often goes out of its way to prove how ridiculous it can be...or people of all ranks and privilege in it do. I remember someone after finding out I had an ACM was making fun of it recently and I walked away thinking, "Bud, if you only knew." My Uncle was in an Army unit during WWII in the Pacific that was attached to a Marine unit. He earned every danged medal he was awarded, so to me accepting something for what I did was ridiculous...and still is.

Falcon