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fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

khmerhit,

interesting photos. why the link though? fail to see a connection.

khmerhit · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 12:27 am Post subject:

See Johnslats post above, where he mentions Chu Lai, Vietnam-- i have to presume he was there on the congressional payroll and not as a tourist!
personally, i had three christmases in Southeastasia myself, but they were all pretty tolerable. the worst i ever had was in cambridge england five or six years ago which i spent with some rather hippyesque strangers, though having said that it was very good of them to invite me.

all grooviest--- and merry xmas again to all and anon out there!!
kh Very Happy

fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

ah, cheers.

johnslat · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:33 am Post subject: Memory Lane

Dear khmerhit,
Thanks for the photos - I was there in 1965 and 1966, on, as you put it, the congressional payroll. We pretty much set up the base when I arrived, including the lovely job of laying the Marston matting for the runway in the summer. And the summers there are extremely hot. I recognized some of the sites in the pictures, but others were new to me. Probably added after my unscheduled departure in February of '66 on a medevac flight to Japan. Lovely country and lovely people - at least the ones who weren't shooting at us, that is. And I can't really say I blame them for doing so. I'd have done the same, I think, if a half-million of so Vietnamese military had suddenly occupied Los Angeles. Well, on second thought, I might have let them have L.A.
Regards,
John