INTERNET NOSTALGIA

I got the lawn mowed, the front lawn anyway. I'll probably mow the lakeside again tomorrow. I need the exercise. Other than the 45 minutes of mowing and a few minutes walking with Oscar, I have spent the day browsing.

I stumbled upon some old Army Security Agency historical sites. Would you believe I found the orders promoting me to SP4/E-4. Amazing! Here is the order, dated 6 September 1963. It's in alphabetic order. You'll need to page down to my name.

This internet thing totally blows me away. I've added my name to several groups of ASA veterans. I even contacted a pilot whose mom was a professor at Sul Ross. She had grants to study Indian culture. In addition to the study of dwellings, rock art, and culture, the Captain's mom shared legends and yarns of old maps and lost treasures. We spent many hours flying over the Big Bend National Park searching for a lost goldmine. I wonder if he ever found it?

Several families of us went camping in the Big Bend. Captain Lowrance's dad came along and brought his metal detector. The kids loved him. He took them exploring in the deserted quicksilver mines. They would just squeal every time the metal detector beeped. They uncovered dozens of Prince Albert tobacco cans. The big kids were wandering the hills and desert in search of the lost mine.

HEY!!! Here is a picture of my aviation unit in Vietnam. We were then known as the 3rd Radio Research Unit, Aviation Section.

That's me on the first row, first from the left. First row is radio ops, second row is flight maintenance, the pilots are standing. Man, what memories.

We had a relatively cool day. Cloud cover kept us below 100. The humidity made up for it. Jane tried to kill herself excavating a grapevine. She wants to use the grape arbor for a climbing flower. The birds loved those grapes. I'll never know how good they were.

I've used enough new knowledge for this day. I'll come up with a few more technical experiments tomorrow.

Bueno