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Re: Naptha and memories




To Col Mike Haas:
        SEE............
                  Don Carter's  little sister

>From: <ResareRC@aol.com>
>Reply-To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>Subject: Re: Naptha
>Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:49:50 EDT
>
>In a message dated 6/5/01 2:40:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>patricia_winston@hotmail.com writes:
>
>
> > So... you're saying it's naptha time again for the old coots
>
>The above phrase brings a flashback.  While with the 7th Marines, we were
>relieved on line by another battalion or perhaps an entire regiment, and
>enroute to the rear, we spent the night in an abandoned rice paddy.  It was
>dry and full of the rice straw that had not been cut or harvested.  That
>straw provided the softest nights sleep I ever experienced in Korea.
>Robert

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