So what you are saying is that Mulberries are high fiber, eh?! Funny story Keith...I think we can all relate to it
My best man was killed in Viet Nam. One of the men who was serving with him, but survived, decorated his truck in memory of the 3 men who were killed, one being my best man.
So very sorry that you lost your best man in the war. I have had "issues" ever since I was there. You know I can remember event, and even faces, but not one name, not one. I did a number on myself blocking it all out until I retired. Then all hell broke loose. The VA has helped me a lot.
Thank you for your service. Glad the VA was able to help you. So many never reach out for help. I have a couple 'Nam vet friends, neighbor down the road was a Ranger, he goes and talks to vets now, helping them thru the hard times. My other friend, Tim, was Special Forces, sniper. He still has nights when the demons show up...
My partner in the Shorthorn herd we shared, he was in WWII as an advance scout. Do not remember the number of people hand to hand (he claimed piano wire with tw0 handles) he killed. He smoked a pipe, had coffee cans nailed to the outside walls of his barns in a horizontal position so he never entered a barn with a pipe. His wife knew when to get him to the VA to get him "reprogrammed" as she put it, because he would start "losing" his pipes. They would be in the coffee cans and ash tray of the truck, but he couldn't find them. I do not know the relevance of his losing them and needed the help, but a week or less and he would be okay for a year or so. He talked about it once or twice with me briefly. Heck of a man, rode the Chicago stockyards as a kid sorting cattle, brand inspector out west with a horse and pack animal. Thank all of you for my freedoms I enjoy.
Look at our group Bugles Across America online. We do live Taps ( not a recording ). The sounding of Taps I do here in Maine is almost nil lately with the pandemic. Vets are being buried privately without deserved honor. Just last year I'd do one almost every week in the summer with or without an Honor Guard. (If you look carefully at Loon's YouTube bugle, it has a microphone in the bell.) A comment that many of us feel: please, we served, we left. No "thank you for your service" needed or wanted. Please.
No wonder CT has such high taxes. First no toilet is permitted on a truck bed UNMOUNTED in CT. . Big fine. And second, the toilet is not TOTO. Third...................
Off the topic know. But... Our wonderful Pentagon desk bureaucracy determined a couple of decades ago that there were not enough service buglers to sound Taps. In their usual thoughtful way they got from a clueless Congress 10's of thousands of your dollars to buy bugles with recorders inserted in the bell. This is not acceptable. Bugles Across America's mission was and is that every veteran deserves the honor of the sounding of live Taps. If you play or want to learn how to sound the 24 notes for those who served, join. While most of us are vets, many who do Taps are not. < buglesacrossamerica.org > . There is never any compensation for this. Notifications and requests are done online in every state and territory. I usually do events within a 2 hour drive. Special requests such as a shipboard Taps are different fort me in Maine. This is an example of the notice we get from HQ : "Please note: This email was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message. The following mission was submitted via the Bugles Across America website. If you wish to accept this mission, please click on the link below (You will be able to review the mission and volunteer). Event Number: 54829 Event/Deceased Name: Kevin Waters Branch: Coast Guard Rank: BM2 Event Site Address: 380 Ash Point Road Owl's head, ME 04854 Event Date/Time: 7/16/2020 11:00 AM Additional Notes: In Owl's Head Cemetery"
