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Hi Guys, It's hard to believe that this is post number 800 for this blog. I started this blog out of my desire to communicate. Since radio and television is becoming more and more automated and less and less personal, I'm glad I made the decision to go in this direction as it has given me many blessings. When I first decided to write my musings, a friend from the radio and television boards who goes by the name of newsnomore, told me not to be discouraged if I didn't get any readers. The fact that I did in the early going made me surprised and grateful that anyone was enjoying what I wrote. I've had people tell me that maybe it wasn't meant for me to ever be in radio, that maybe my calling was blogging. Nowadays I think blogging makes for better two way conversation than terrestrial radio, especially the way I do it, non confrontational. The closest I come from any confrontation is the innocent digs that Pat and I shoot at each other. On an average day I get betwee
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These posts also ring a completely different set of memories for me. A psychiatrist dealing with Vietnam vets one said in a paper that the vets of the Rhodesian bush war showed identical symptoms. Both fought extremely stressful and controversial wars, but in the case of the latter they had no country to return to, in a manner of speaking.
I knew a friend of my dad's who checked for landmines under his bed and TV lounger every day.
It also irks me, to be honest, that the other countries who fought in Vietnam get a similar cold shoulder/snubbing by the world. In fact I never even knew other countries fought with the USA until I was in my late 20s!