I just heard from an old shipmate of mine from 1965 and we were the best of friends for a couple of years. That kind of email brings back floods of memories and most are valid because we tend to remember the good times and not the bad times and we tend to remember things as we want them to be rather that the way they were. The guy in the picture is a 19 year old, still wet behind the ears young sailor off the coast of VietNam on board the USS Princeton LPH-5. We were a helicopter carrier with about 1000 marines set up for fast response combat. Those long ago years seem like they were yesterday. My friend and I are planning to get together in 2010 at the next Princeton reunion in Branson Mo. I bet there will be a lot of old timers there. Gee, I wonder what us young kids will talk about?
Life is interesting and life is great. We just have to keep bending with the wind. GM 08