The Dream that went "LIVE"....

      Last evening a skaggy looking Coyote or Fox ran past my bed while I slept.  I immediately yelled, "What the hell" and jumped out of bed and turned on my light by the bed. My first thoughts was how to get this animal out of my house.  My second thought was how he got into my house...Would someone be evil enough to purposely put him in there.

     I cautiously left my bedroom turning on lights as I came to them.  I did not see him figuring he had ran into another bedroom possibly.  I slowly moved from room to room turning on the lights and searching the rooms. I closed the doors on the rooms so as to prevent his reentry as I searched other rooms.  I searched the entire house and no animal.  I returned to my bedroom heart still pumping but starting to calm down.  I finally turned off the light and seeing how dark it was in the room realized it had to have been a dream that went live as soon as it happened.

At a Marine reunion last week we visited a Wolf Park that had a lot of wolves, coyotes and fox and Buffalo...I am thinking that maybe watching these guys run around may have caused this dream.  It is the first dream I have had that immediately became a live event.  And I kind of hope the last.. And thankful it was not the Buffalo who charged past my bed...

Happy Hoosier

I'm guessing the last reunion of 3002

Our Platoon started training in June of 1956, that is 62 years ago..  We had a 50 year reunion in San Diego the scene of our adventure in 2006...We had another reunion in Quantico Va. on or about 2008 maybe..Another one in Branson Mo.  about 2010. Another one in Omaha Neb. maybe 2012...The years maybe reversed to much water under the bridge and I don't take notes...But we were back in San Diego again in 2016 for our 60 year reunion...

So here it is 2018 our numbers keep getting smaller as we get into higher numbers of age...  So at about 80 which I will be the last day of this reunion to maybe 83 for some of our guys I am guessing this could be the last roundup for Platoon 3002 and honor platoon of our series by the way that graced the halls of San Diego's MCRD from June 1 to Sept 6, 1956.

The reunion is set for Aug 23-25 right here in Lafayette Indiana.. One day we will visit the Tippecanoe Battle field where Gen Harrison put a whoopin on our native Americans also in the town of Battle Ground is the boyhood home of Marine General David Shoup. Gen Shoup became the Commandant of the Marines in 1960 to 1963...

Back Home again In Indiana....

I gotta write something...Its been over a year...no excuses other than pure lazyness and retirement...Once your retired its almost like your duty bound to relax and get your licks in at retirement...And that's an honest for sure reason as your only allotted so much time at this juncture...

But on the other hand you don't really want to buy into that thought pattern either....That's like giving in or giving up...we gotta keep movin and finding new ways to keep the sunset a fur piece away..I am back home and looking forward to a great summer here.  I enjoy singing Back Home Again in Indiana as I cross the bridge over the Ohio river on I-275 around Cincinnati Ohio...You go directly into Indiana from Kentucky...and by using the exit 16 you stay in Indiana by using Indiana 1 at Lawrenceville...Its a senic winding 14 miles maybe past the North Slope ski deal there...

Anyway I got the song down the whole deal just like Jim Nabors used to sing it at the 500 mile race each year...Of course I am alone an that leaves me to really belt it out big time....I like the song it does take you back maybe even past my time, to maybe the time of my Grand Parents era... I like the vision of the candle light shining bright through the sycamore trees....for me...and I surely like the new mown hay and all its fragrance through the fields I surely did roam in my time of farming...Its a good song and I'll keep the window rolled up, well unless its an early spring and they need to be down to let Indiana know Happy Hoosier is back.....