Happy 4th to all the yanks here....

[pitsword]

Aaah, the good old days. On 7.04.63, I was about 3 weeks into boot camp at great lakes NTC. I shall never, ever forget doing pushups on the asphalt ginder and thinking (thimking), this not fair...today is a day off. The beginning of the rest of my life. Even growing up on a farm, we always had the 4th off. It was sacred.

12 months later in 1964, I was driving a Submarine..not at the races though. That was about the time that Fred (Fnorm) was flying out of Cubi point, looking out for us (we prayed) and trying to find the real Submarine racers.

Good on us, monsoor charles never could figure out how to get a bumboat, sampan or even junk to submerge. We did though, put enough holes in anything and it will sink. We'uns could however get back to the top. It was sort of a...forgive me please...huge bl*w J*b.

God bless us all, I am so proud to be an American and a guest here with you folks. Stand proud.
Pitsword