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Boy, times sure have changed ..................
When I first went South of the Border (1963 to NAS Jacksonville, Florida )
that place was just loaded with "Good ole boys" they drove around in
pickups, had gun racks in the back window. Everything a young Yankee
expected of a red neck.
Now .................. a few years pass, I have been e mailing Archie
Henderson for a few years, even talked to him on the phone, he sure sounds
like one of them "rednecks" When Archie said he was coming to his first
reunion, in Nashville, I was really looking forward to seeing him. I asked
him, you coming in your pick up truck? He said, "pickup, no I don't have a
pick up, we'll probably come in my wife's Volkswagen bug"
VW Bug? I thought to myself, he talks funny, he must have meant a VW bus, I
guess rednecks drive around in those things, too.
Well, Archie and Virginia showed up in Nashville, and I must admit, I really
did enjoy seeing them, (well, when he wasn't telling me to s l o w down, I
talk too fast. and when he wasn't asking me to say "Park my car" ) He really
is a "good ole boy" at heart, I guess. But he sure doesn't look like a red
neck. (instead of a rifle rack in his VW, he has a holder for a Palm Pilot)
Well, Archie is trying to convince me to stop off in Mississippi and see
when I drive south to Florida in Feb. ( I didn't think Miss. was on the
way, but he says "oh yeah, it's right on the way")
He gave me directions, that included his cell phone #, his beeper #, etc.
Boy, they just don't make rednecks like they used to.
Bill
PS Oh, by the way, Archie, I never did get my final month's flight deck pay.
(Archie was a disbursing clerk (paymaster) on the ship.
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