All,Happy Veterans Day all.  Still hard to think of myself as a veteran.  I remember folks like Steve Moore and Donny Paragoy talking about going to the VFW and drinking nickel beer.  I found it hard to dismiss the mental picture of old fogies with grey beards and lost limbs telling stories about “WW-Vietnam”.  Now I look like the old fogy (no beard) grey haired and willing to match stories with anyone who will listen about “WW-Iraq” ….Although not at the VFW…yet.  Chuck, I think wearing ones medals would add to the deranged fogy look that Hollyweird loves to smear on people who answered the higher calling to serve.  Along with James I mourn the nation that forgets the sacrifices made by our brothers in arms and even worse, views them as patsies and dupes who were fooled into military service by those smarter then the rest of us.  A new movie by Robert Redford just opened with that very theme.  I’m somewhat heartened in that the attendance to this outrage is relatively low, and that the hollywierd bunch stands to loose some cash for attempting such a lie.   Alas they seem to have endless supplies of money to blow.  Chuck maybe you can pry some away from them by writing scripts.  The fools here seem to think that their writing skills are underappreciated and are on strike.  Seem they think that America will fold and collapse if they are not there every night supplying the world with the crap that comes out of actors and so-called
Celebes mouths on moronic talk shows. Hope the strike last a long, long, long time;-)  Not much happening here to talk about.  We just hired a new guy fresh out of the Air Force.  His name is Steve Walden.  I didn’t even get to ask him if he was related before he asked me if I knew a Steve Walden at KBAD.  He said he was not related but that he and Waldo have had cross e-mails for years and that they have talked on the phone several times trying to get it figured out.  Small world thing again.  He says he knows lots of Buff guys so we will have to do the old fogy thing here and tell war stories…again.  Andy I’m jealous of the duck hunt.  Wish I was there…although you look like your hang’n with a pretty tough crowd…all backwoodsy and the like.    I never was real comfortable wadding around in those swamps up to my chest in black water.  Especially when a few short weeks before there were alligators swim’n in the same spots.  For those of you that haven’t done it, most of the wadd’n around goes on in the dark… well before sunrise in stuff you would not normally even think of gett’n into if it was daylight.  Stumbling over big alligator like stuff on the bottom was creepy… let alone get’n snagged on something that puts holes in the wadders….eeewwww!! Shoot’n at the ducks was fun though.  We had our monthly star party this week end and the night sky held a beautiful surprise for all.  A comet that normally never gets bright enough to be seen even in telescopes, exploded into a brilliant display.  The word must have gotten out cause we had a huge crowd of folks who wanted to have a look.  It was and still, is a spectacular sight.  Best to all until next month! 

Reed