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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 673691" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>for 43 years now, I've done a wake for a buddy of mine. The last couple years I and my girl friend did it over at the VFW post. Partied till the crack of dawn, and cried a lot. People walked up and asked what the hot can of Budwiser was for sitting on the table in the middle of the dance floor, and I told them that was the only kinda beer Tommy and I got so why change. Last Febuary we did number 43 for him, and must have had three dozen folks join in with their own buddies added to the list. I expect to see fifty people next year, and Tom would have wanted it that way. </p><p> </p><p>I hate the sound of choppers(military), and to this day it makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Smoke from charcoal makes me think a little too much. I really don't like to goto the range with a guy next to me shooting an AR15. Nothing against him and the gun, but the sounds make me think too much. I have owned a couple of them for other reasons, but rarely shoot them. I did take an old Colt I had out to the range with my sons because they wanted to shoot one. I sat back and let them burn up a couple hundred rounds not hitting a damned thing. I walked up and took the gun and shot the brass heads off shot gun rounds at 100 yards in a very rapid fire; one right after another. After eight or ten hits I handed it back to them and said "it's never left me"</p><p> </p><p>Had an Uncle that was a Marine Raider in WWII. He was drafted like most were in those days, and was a pretty tough SOB. I never understood him like I thought I should. Now I do, and nobody else in the family does or did. He'd have done well in RVN, as his head was screwed on right. Yet the thought has came up more than once as to wether I could have survived in his game plan.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 673691, member: 25383"] for 43 years now, I've done a wake for a buddy of mine. The last couple years I and my girl friend did it over at the VFW post. Partied till the crack of dawn, and cried a lot. People walked up and asked what the hot can of Budwiser was for sitting on the table in the middle of the dance floor, and I told them that was the only kinda beer Tommy and I got so why change. Last Febuary we did number 43 for him, and must have had three dozen folks join in with their own buddies added to the list. I expect to see fifty people next year, and Tom would have wanted it that way. I hate the sound of choppers(military), and to this day it makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Smoke from charcoal makes me think a little too much. I really don't like to goto the range with a guy next to me shooting an AR15. Nothing against him and the gun, but the sounds make me think too much. I have owned a couple of them for other reasons, but rarely shoot them. I did take an old Colt I had out to the range with my sons because they wanted to shoot one. I sat back and let them burn up a couple hundred rounds not hitting a damned thing. I walked up and took the gun and shot the brass heads off shot gun rounds at 100 yards in a very rapid fire; one right after another. After eight or ten hits I handed it back to them and said "it's never left me" Had an Uncle that was a Marine Raider in WWII. He was drafted like most were in those days, and was a pretty tough SOB. I never understood him like I thought I should. Now I do, and nobody else in the family does or did. He'd have done well in RVN, as his head was screwed on right. Yet the thought has came up more than once as to wether I could have survived in his game plan. gary [/QUOTE]
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