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captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 girl thanksgiving of 67 which was just a couple days or so after my birthday. i had my 21st birthday there at khe sanh. i don t remember that, but i remember thanksgiving we had fresh eggs that morning and we had real, real turkey in the chow hall. i understand the chow hall got completely blown away. but we had real food, and all of this through air drops. it was amazing. i remember colonel lowndes, david lowndes who was our he was our commander. he was also he was a cowboy. he was a john wayne with a big red mustache all over the place. just the guy was, hey, john wayne. i m just going out there and doing whatever. so i remember him i remember nothing of my shop. i can see a work bench and some maybe test equipment, a few people with no faces. i have no idea who i worked with. i now learned from my records that my communications officer was a ma ....
we were poor by the time i started into junior high school. i never understood or knew what that meant because we were always happy. we had at the time i was coming along i was the seventh of what at that point was eight children. seven of my mom s plus my older brother of my dad s. and at that time, six of us were still in the house. shotgun house. okay? i learned many years later what shotgun house meant. but nonetheless, there was a front room which served as the living room and my mom and dad s bedroom. and then there was the kids room. and there were three girls over in the one bed and three guys, three boys on the other side. and i can remember in the kitchen you went out the back door to go into the kitchen. and of course we had no power, no electricity. i i can remember maybe fourth gradish coming home from school one day and i could see the wires coming from the power pole into the house. i mean, this was like, it doesn t get any better than this. you kn ....