314 This was a good day........

Today was a good day alright. Last night I got a call from a Marine friend from Boot Camp 1956...If you have forgotten that is when I was at war...You see I was only in one war and it was right here in the USA in San Diego California...Yep it happened in the summer of 1956 and it was Me against the Marine Corps..it wore on all summer long, June then July and then August and finally the war ended...The Marine Corps won and I became one of them...

But back to this good day, got this call last night from Chuck and Lois Paulson of Mitchell South Dakota..they were passing through today on their way to South Carolina and some beach time. Said maybe we will just stop and see your place...Well as you know I organized a couple reunions for the guys in our platoon in 06 and then again last year...Anyway Chuck and Lois have always come but Chuck always ask each year about Bob Bandy of Mulberry whom I graduated with and enlisted in the Marines with...Bob, I just could not get motivated to attend these reunions but this am I got to thinking, hey there is a nice restaurant in Mulberry just 2 blocks from Bob's house, "The South Fork" owned by Scott Roberts...If only, so I called him and by golly he agreed to come up there at noon and surprise Chuck and Lois...it was great we arrived just ahead of Bob and in he pops and it was fun watching them get reacquainted after 55 years..Actually both of them have changed very little in the face...We did lunch said our good byes and encouraged Bob and Barb to maybe attend next years 56th anniversary reunion in Branson Mo....I hope they will but sure the Paulson's and us will be there and hopefully lots of our guys that have been unable or unwilling to come to the other reunions in the past...this will be our 4th time, we do it every other year...First San Diego where it all began...then Omaha, then Wash. DC and next year Branson....it was a good day.

Left to Right in picture...Bob Bandy, Chuck Paulson and Jack Lahrman Photo by Lois.

Update on that cancer to the right side...Yesterday they cut pretty deep into it to get the rest of the cancer and I now am sporting about 5 stitches for a couple weeks. Hopefully that is the end of that one....semper fi....