hindsight is 20/20. i was 19, did not ever occur to me that i might get
killed. may be that i was a world better off. on the other hand i'd have
retire with 30 years by now. can't out guess your maker.

-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Alfred [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 2:26 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: PISS


In a message dated 03/03/2000 1:35:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:

<< i don't like to speak of the dead. i thik ole ho chee is gone too. but,
if
 they'd had to take ten paces, turn and fire. before any troops could have
 been committed? who knows.  i tried to volunteer for the navy in 68/69 time
 frame.  4f no can do. but i lost some friends to that fight. still makes me
 want to cry when i think of them.
  >>

Sorry Ken...sorry for your friends, and sorry for your 4f status.  That must
have been a tough pill to swallow.  I greatly admire you for wanting to go
in.