"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:37:44 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"JimH" wrote in message
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"Tim" wrote in message
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When was the last time you had your eyes checked?

Or have you been color blind your whole life? :)- Hide quoted text -

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Actually tom,now that you've mentioned that. at 52 i have 20/10
vision.

However I am a bit color blind. In fact it kept me out of the Marines.

Army didn't mind, though.
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Between you, Dick, Tom, BAR and a couple of others I think we have all
Armed Forces services present here.

Thanks for serving.

BTW: My son is having a blast on Okinawa.

Ask him to look up Michiko in Naha. 8-)

Ah heck, she's probably too old for him now, maybe a grand daughter.

ROTFL!!!

I spent exactly six hours in Okinawa - never even got past the air
field gate.

I've heard stories though - oh my, I've heard stories. :)

I arrived there by ship in 1959 and I can still remember the terrible odor
we started smelling shortly after the island was in sight.

The open sewerage in use at that time, like running right down the streets,
was not a pretty sight and the stink, I'll leave that to your imagination.

I remember my first liberty off the base. A couple of us shared a cab into
town and as soon as we arrived mother nature called, number two. I walking
into a gas station where the WC (water closet) was located in an adjacent
building. I opened the door and there was a hole in floor for making a
deposit. For some reason I lost the urge.

Ah, the good ole days. Wouldn't trade them for all the tea in china.

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:56:34 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:37:44 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:



I arrived there by ship in 1959 and I can still remember the terrible odor
we started smelling shortly after the island was in sight.

The open sewerage in use at that time, like running right down the streets,
was not a pretty sight and the stink, I'll leave that to your imagination.

I remember my first liberty off the base. A couple of us shared a cab into
town and as soon as we arrived mother nature called, number two. I walking
into a gas station where the WC (water closet) was located in an adjacent
building. I opened the door and there was a hole in floor for making a
deposit. For some reason I lost the urge.

Ah, the good ole days. Wouldn't trade them for all the tea in china.


The Koreans, in Seoul, were still using the hole in the floor in the late
70's. They had modernized though, there were little concrete pads with shoe
impressions next to the hole, to keep one from slipping in, I suppose.

"John H." wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:56:34 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:37:44 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:



I arrived there by ship in 1959 and I can still remember the terrible odor
we started smelling shortly after the island was in sight.

The open sewerage in use at that time, like running right down the
streets,
was not a pretty sight and the stink, I'll leave that to your imagination.

I remember my first liberty off the base. A couple of us shared a cab
into
town and as soon as we arrived mother nature called, number two. I
walking
into a gas station where the WC (water closet) was located in an adjacent
building. I opened the door and there was a hole in floor for making a
deposit. For some reason I lost the urge.

Ah, the good ole days. Wouldn't trade them for all the tea in china.


The Koreans, in Seoul, were still using the hole in the floor in the late
70's. They had modernized though, there were little concrete pads with
shoe
impressions next to the hole, to keep one from slipping in, I suppose.

My last business trip to the Far East was in 1994. Many place still had the
hole in the floor facilities. But some had a "special" water closet for
"Westerners", a real commode.