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Turning world

Miss Nina
at the
Viet Nam Moving Wall
 

This Page was created
August 19th, 1999

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It was such a lovely day here this morning (Thursday August 19th, 1999) I just had to get high.  Around 6am as I was still horizontal contemplating my day to come, I realizing it was indeed promising to B a great day to fly an Angel. So,  I decided to take Miss Nina out for some exercise. On my way home I ended up stopping at the traveling Viet Nam Memorial Wall in Miss Nina pictured below.

I ended up being in the signal core stationed at Bien Tuy Army/Navy air field (the delta) in 1971. I could tell lots of intresting/sad tales, but who would care to listen. However, I am happy to say NOT once did I fire my M16 or M6o during my stay in Viet Nam, I was in the Signal Core, I just had to pull perimeter guard every 4th day.

The lovely Miss Nian waits patiently off to the left behind the flag pole.

I was happy to NOT find the names of 3 buddies (Graham Bowels, Little n Rapper) on the wall, 3 dudes I was once stationed with n lost track of  some 3o years ago.

What a site the wall is, even scaled down, it is BIG............ Ifin I remember correctly, some
58, ooo names/deaths R represented by this wall..... A sobering way to end my flight to day to say the least.

Since I was obviously one of the lucky ones that could move on, I too felt a tad bit of guilt as I strapped in to Nina n prepared to wind her up and depart the Viet Nam memorial this morning. But they say that survivors guilt is a normal reaction for most. However, for a teen of the mid 60s who's favorite TV show perhaps was "TW3", (a political/current events satire) I knew I was gonna get drafted sooner or later. This Bing the case, I decided to enlistment so I wouldn't need to tote a gun, but didn't sign on the the dotted line until I got my special invite (draft notice) in the mail some 6 months after I started the enlistment process. Anyway, I paid, I needed to commit my self to the Army for an extra 12 months in order to ensure that  I didn't have a Army job that required me to tote a gun on a regular basis, so not to much guilt for this boy now or than, but some..........

Happy to say, Nina was in fine form this morning. I had her out for about 0.8, than it was a mad rush to get her in the garage n back to work 4 this soon 2 B 5o year old boy that does not have much time 2 play with his favorite toy. But Some is Always Better than None, so, 48 minutes was ok for today especially considering the 58K guys n gals listed in the wall pictured above on the left..........

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