Never went to Paris, did the French Riviera for a week once. We moved our way through St. Tropez, Cannes, Nice, on our way to Monte Carlo. Never made Monte Carlo, ran out of money and went back to the 4th USAFAD in Werl Germany. Had a soldier who's girl friend was Belgian and she spoke about 4 or 5 languages 2 of which were English and French. She set everything up for us and did most of the talking. We got better service when she was handling the orders.
Always better when native or fluent speakers get involved. Our other French trip back then included a week scuba diving on Giens peninsula near Toulon the week 1986 World Cup final was played. All the French assholes cheering for Argentina over Germany were annoying as heck.
I used to work at the "atomic plant" near Paducah. The guy who trained me was Barney Ross. He was on a tank crew that got captured his first day in Africa and he spent the war in a German POW camp. He said the Germans didn't treat Americans to bad, but the Germans hated Russians. He said they'd make the Russians strip down to their underwear and make them crawl around in the snow. He also said most of their dreams were about food.
There was a movie (made for TV I believe) back in the late 70s, early 80s about it. Starred Martin Sheen as I recall. Haven't seen it since....but I liked it.Anybody ever heard of this guy? I read a book about him a long time ago. He's the only man executed for desertion since the Civil War.
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I first heard about Eddie Slovik because of a TV movie starring Martin Sheen. Yeah, controversial case. Seems Slovik may have been held to different standards even for WW2.Anybody ever heard of this guy? I read a book about him a long time ago. He's the only man executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Eddie Slovik - Wikipedia
Both maybe?Anyone else see where Darwins Arch in the Galapagos fell?
Natural erosion.....or the hand of God?
I noticed Slovik was from Detroit, Michigan which was interesting because during my 21 months as a Drill Sgt in a basic training unit we only had one "deserter" and he was from Detroit. We had a few go AWOL but they just went to Louisville where they got drunk and ended up with some girl they picked up on Market Street. The MP's would pick them up bring them back to our Company and the First Sgt would take it from there.Anybody ever heard of this guy? I read a book about him a long time ago. He's the only man executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Eddie Slovik - Wikipedia
While stationed at Tan My, we had a guy who was drunk/drugged up shoot up the camp with an M-60. He didn't hit anyone. I think he just wanted to get out, which he did with a Bad Conduct discharge. In today's world, he'd of probably killed several people,
Or been revered as a 'hero'. 😡
Been to the rock many times.
Next time be polite and butter those biscuits.Well, I want to announce my triumph over the deer who take pleasure in eating everything in my yard. These hibiscus were planted outside in a flower garden and deer ate them down to the roots. I dug them up and was going to throw them away but decided to put them in a pot and bring them inside the screen. Two weeks later and they are blooming and adding a lot of color to the area
Object of this lesson: Do not put food out for deer to devour. This was like a gourmet dinner for Bambi running loose through our property.
Never had any successful AWOL/deserters during my time as a DI but we had a couple try. I brought one back with trainees actually handling him so he could not claim I was hurting him and I found a second hiding in the latrine after several hours (about 8) of him being missing. After I went to teach at the Drill Sergeant School they had one go AWOL and he was running across interstate 44 when he was hit by a semi. Needless to say he was killed instantly.
One time in Turkey, one of the guys got drunk at the NCO club and took the stage over from the band because they wouldn't play Frank Sinatra songs. The shift commander sent me and another guy that knew him well to take care of it. We walked on stage as he was singing My Way and we did it our way. Each of us grabbed an arm and walked him off stage with him claiming he could walk without our help. We got him outside to the truck, looked at each other, and both let go of his arms. He fell to the ground passed out. We threw him in the back of the truck, took him to the barracks, carried him upstairs and threw him on his bed where he slept it off.
We must take care of our friends!
What weight rod do you use? I lived with a medium-heavy to heavy............my mentor Carl Lambert took one of my reels to the reel doctor near him for some work.......when we fished next he had it on a MX7 Graphite rod just like my rods........except.....it was a medium.........after I landed my first two strikes he told me that I had been missing so many fish was because I wasn't feeling them soon enough.......it was crazy the difference it made in my fishing that day......it doesn't seem like much but it was.......when we was about done fishing for the day I asked him how much for the rod........he said it wasn't for sale.........when we got back to his place I proceeded to take my reel off his rod........he stopped me.....told me it wasn't for sale.......because he was giving it to me......it made a world of difference in my bite/catch ratio..........food for thought.......
We are luckier than lucky.......buddy passes for business class round trip Louisville International to London, Gatwick $549.........our daughter lived in the Cambridge area...........we took one hop over and back in four days.........the longest trip was almost 6 months.......I only had about two days to get out of the country.....we figured that being so close to Europe.......it would have been silly to not poke around a little......Scotland, Belgium and France are so close......The Euro Train can get to Paris Gare De Nord from London Saint Pancras in a couple of hours....from Ely a overnight trip to Scotland........is easy peasy.....we were just a bit over a mile to the Ely Train Station......we became known to the ticket people at Ely train station.......I guess I probably don't remember every where we visited in England......a lot of places in the Paris area and a friend in Brussels showed us around some there........a lot of sights for a boy from the Portland neighborhood in Louisville.....
I have medium for this but part of my problem is there is so much grass that when running my lures weed less I have to bury the hook a little deeper to avoid it coming out too soon.
