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My friend David Lively reminded me it was 50 years ago in March that we joined the Army, he in Arkansas on the 29th, me in Tennessee on the 21st.</p>
I was 18 when my father gave me that old “as long as you live under my roof” speech. I figured I was a big boy by then and time to move on. </p>
Four days later I was in the army and never lived under any one's roof again or took anyone's assistance, not even to go to college. </p>
Many guys in the jungles of Vietnam had similar stories often told while being drenched by the monsoon, covered in leeches, suffering from jungle rot, crotch rot, foot rot and eating cold C-Rations left over from the Korean Conflict. </p> We always concluded our stories of our troubles with our fathers with “I bet he's sorry now!"
My friend David Lively reminded me it was 50 years ago in March that we joined the Army, he in Arkansas on the 29th, me in Tennessee on the 21st.</p>
I was 18 when my father gave me that old “as long as you live under my roof” speech. I figured I was a big boy by then and time to move on. </p>
Four days later I was in the army and never lived under any one's roof again or took anyone's assistance, not even to go to college. </p>
Many guys in the jungles of Vietnam had similar stories often told while being drenched by the monsoon, covered in leeches, suffering from jungle rot, crotch rot, foot rot and eating cold C-Rations left over from the Korean Conflict. </p> We always concluded our stories of our troubles with our fathers with “I bet he's sorry now!"
