What did you think you would grow up to be?

[Deja Vous]

I was a High School Football/Baseball star. Dreamed of either being a Dallas Cowboy or New York Yankee!!

Got to Collage and barely made the Junior Varsity in both sports Got to partying too much , quit school and instead of ending up being drafted and being sent to Vietnam I joined the Navy. ^ months later woke up on a Bass Boat with machine guns in the Mekong Delta

 

 

I had older friends since I was the baby in the family.. Some of those friends, and some of my very own never made it home, it was a very tough era. I spent a lot of time in cars with older guys telling me how much they loved me and my brother for years and years... watching them drink beer, and in some cases driving their cars home when I was not old enough to drive.. lol.. With them passed out in the passenger seat.. Nam was tough... war is... And the Navy I found out had choppers.. and that was a scarey job too... I found out from my family who have been navy people for a long time how to roll yout pants so they don't wrinkle.. lol Thanks for protecting me when I was too young to do it myself, or too much of a girl.. lol

[Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381]

I wanted to be an oilfield roughneck, but don't tell my mom -- she thinks I'm a piano player in a cat house.