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Rude!
Ha ha somewhat different circumstances but this gives me flashbacks of my personal internet-connection-on-a-broomstick at Camp Victory.
Ha ha somewhat different circumstances but this gives me flashbacks of my personal internet-connection-on-a-broomstick at Camp Victory.
Sometimes those little interwebs just don’t want line up! At least you had some kind of internet. In MY day we had to wait in line to make a collect call from a phone bank. Now Gerald comes in and says back in MY day we had to wait for Dear John letters written on Paper!
The worst "Dear John" I've ever seen was a voicemail left on a dude's phone that was subsequently heard at last when we hit the pier... dude's severely negative reaction was such that neither he nor his next two levels of supervisors got to go on liberty due to safety concerns.
they can be so heartless! But losing liberty on top of that .... it’s insult to injury! Besides, hows he going to get a replacement?
Gerald Ney on 1st Feb 2019, 9:36 PM
I can't vouch for other stories I was told, but a number of them circulated about guys getting a "Dear John" and volunteering to go on point for the next patrol or sweep and getting themselves killed.
On outgoing calls, there were the MARS stations where you could phone via short wave radio connection if there was an open time slot. Never tried it myself. Just made with pen and paper. There's a shoe box in my bedroom with all my letters saved by my Mom. My oldest son will get them.
No winners there... marriage is hard enough without a war getting in the way.
Gerald Ney on 2nd Feb 2019, 6:06 PM
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