|
Jerry, isn't it strange how we still use the term
"real milk" after more than 50 years? I think maybe maybe we missed milk more
anything else. I know I did.
Bob Dove
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:34
PM
Subject: Re: Vets, "Where Ya Been?"
Bill
I went over on the USNS
Gen Weigel , shipping out of New Orleans . We were very growded and was on
that ship 30 days before landing at Hokkido , Japan .
Sure was good to get
off that ship after being on it all that time except for 4hours at Balboa
Panama Canal
Zone .
I came back on the USNS Gen Polk , landing at the
Presido , in San Francisco then a ferry to Camp Stoneman at about midnight
. That was the first place any one treated us decent ,they took us to mess
halls at that late hour and fed us roast turkey
mashed potatos
,gravey , real milk , then ice cream .
I'll never for get that .
From
there I went by troop train to Camp Carson ,Colo . My wife and
two little
boys was waiting for me at near by Colorado Springs . My mustering out pay was
$300 .
I Wanted to get away some place and not see
people
so we used most of the $300 to make the down payment on a cabin in
the mountains on 3 acers of vertical land . The cabin had no running water ,
an out house and a wood burning stove for heat .
But we made
it just fine
.
Jerry
KW
51-52
|