~ Years 31 to 33 ~
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Two and a half years were spent in and around
Portland, Oregon this time, just waiting for an assignment to get me out
of a place I was not really all that enthused about (I was still young
enough not to know any better).
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The problem was, when an assignment did arrive,
I needed to go to the library and an encyclopedia to find out just exactly
where this place was. Vietnam? What and where in hell is that? Some
of the pictures were pretty fascinating, and we were told that we were
even going to be able to fire back (if) fired upon. Not really that much
comfort, if you really stop to think about it. Anyway, there I was, among
the sand fleas, red ants and mosquitos, armed with bug bombs, anti-fungal
creams, and other more-or-less dangerous weapons. It was touch and go sometimes,
just to figure out who was going to nail you first - "Charlie" or one of
the large variety of creepy crawlies or flying insects in this, the armpit
of the universe.......
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