It's time to start another place to write short memories that are so easy to forget unless they are quickly written down. It's also a place to write short memories that I may have already written down previously and I forget if, when or where I have written them, so if you happen to read something here and then see it in a previous story just remember that I'm 78 + years old, very forgetful and I ain't gonna get any better so just do like I do, learn to live with it because it doesn't help getting mad.
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When I turned 18, I was able to make decisions without having to ask permission from my parents and what I was going to do after high school was the first big decision I had to make. I knew that I wanted to join the service and the Air Force recruiter had come to our school and given us a test that I did really well on and he wanted me real bad, then I went down to sign up for the draft with a friend who wanted to stop by and see the Navy recruiter while he was in town and low and behold they wanted me also.
Now I had another decision to make that determination was to invite the recruiters over to talk with me and my parents. The night the Air Force recruiter came dad didn't come home till real late. The night the Navy recruiter came dad was home early. When the recruiter left dad looked at me and said " if you needed to jump out of the airplane how far can you fly, I said I can't fly" then he said " if the ship sinks how far can you swim and I said a long ways" - I joined the Navy.
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