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In reply to the discussion: So, TPP and Obama. Thoughts? [View all]Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I joined the Army 40 years ago this summer on July 14, 1975, after the Vietnam War was over.
But I grew up around a lot of veterans.
My dad was a WWII veteran who served in the Army in the Pacific, in the Philippines.
One of my uncles joined the Air Force right after WWII and he made a career out of it, serving for over 25 years.
He did a tour in Korea during the Korean War and one in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
And 2 of my cousins were also Vietnam veterans, one served in the Army and the other one in the Marine Corps.
Another cousin of mine served in the Army during the Vietnam war, but he wasn't shipped to Vietnam.
My older brother was scared to death about being drafted, and being sent over to Vietnam, after he graduated from high school.
You'd have thought he had won a huge lottery prize the way he was so happy after he got a high number in the draft that year.
I thought about going to college to get a degree in fine art.
For about 5 whole minutes.
I just couldn't see myself as an artist.
I decided that was too high-browed stuff for someone like me since I grew up reading MAD magazine and laughing my ass off at the Don Martin cartoons in those magazines.
I wouldn't know fine art if a picture painted by Picasso fell off the wall and hit me on the head.