Fifty Days of Friendship
Viewing comments for Chapter 10 "Buddy System"A first person story about various friends.
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Comment from Raffaelina Lowcock
How is it that we let our connection with someone we were once close with, drop? It really has to do with the venues that we eventually find ourselves in, that do not fit the past. Sometimes we are able to reconnect
with happy memories and other times, they are best forgotten. An interesting foray in your life.
Ralf
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2021
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How is it that we let our connection with someone we were once close with, drop? It really has to do with the venues that we eventually find ourselves in, that do not fit the past. Sometimes we are able to reconnect
with happy memories and other times, they are best forgotten. An interesting foray in your life.
Ralf
Comment Written 20-Jul-2021
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2021
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Separations really are not unintentional.
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I see!
Comment from Versch
I love your story and your narratives with a touch of humor - 'breeding two-headed babies', cruise bars looking for low-hanging fruit in the form of fun-loving girls.
Something must have happened that you and your cousin Bobby haven't spoken in forty years. I haven't spoken to my relatives for over twenty years only.
reply by the author on 16-Jul-2021
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I love your story and your narratives with a touch of humor - 'breeding two-headed babies', cruise bars looking for low-hanging fruit in the form of fun-loving girls.
Something must have happened that you and your cousin Bobby haven't spoken in forty years. I haven't spoken to my relatives for over twenty years only.
Comment Written 16-Jul-2021
reply by the author on 16-Jul-2021
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Thanks, versch, for giving this a look. Time rolls by us like a flash flood.
Comment from judiverse
Funny how the sight of the drunken Marine made Bobby decide you and he could do better than that. This led both of you to enlist. Interesting the wheeling that the Marines do to get recruits. Isn't it something that guys like Bobby always make a hit with the girls. Interesting that Bobby led to your career in the Marines. I wonder if you wish you had kept in touch with him. I have lost track of cousins, especially on my father's side of the family. judi
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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Funny how the sight of the drunken Marine made Bobby decide you and he could do better than that. This led both of you to enlist. Interesting the wheeling that the Marines do to get recruits. Isn't it something that guys like Bobby always make a hit with the girls. Interesting that Bobby led to your career in the Marines. I wonder if you wish you had kept in touch with him. I have lost track of cousins, especially on my father's side of the family. judi
Comment Written 14-Jul-2021
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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I?m a terrible relative.
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It is hard to keep track of all the cousins. There were so many on my father's side of the family. I hardly can name them now. judi
Comment from Jay Squires
No one could marry anyone else from within the county without the fear of breeding two-headed babies. [Next, you'll be telling me the picture under your name is a selfie!
What an interesting story with so many touchpoints with my own military, though mine was in the Air Force. I, like your cousin, was in intelligence and code deciphering. But on the surface of it, military is military and I got out at the first opportunity.
A good un
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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No one could marry anyone else from within the county without the fear of breeding two-headed babies. [Next, you'll be telling me the picture under your name is a selfie!
What an interesting story with so many touchpoints with my own military, though mine was in the Air Force. I, like your cousin, was in intelligence and code deciphering. But on the surface of it, military is military and I got out at the first opportunity.
A good un
Comment Written 14-Jul-2021
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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The ?two-headed babies? is a bit of an exaggeration. I?m sure the citizens went at it like minks in a smelt run.
Comment from BethShelby
So your good-buddy cousin Bobby got you enlisted and buddy system ensured that you were in the same company. I have no idea what a ballistic meteorologist would be doing, but it sounds pretty impressive. Did you fall out with your buddy or is just an accident your haven't spoken for forty years? I have cousins I haven't spoken to in 40 years too. I have nothing against them. They're just not on my radar. I enjoy reading your Fiftys Days of Friendship.
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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So your good-buddy cousin Bobby got you enlisted and buddy system ensured that you were in the same company. I have no idea what a ballistic meteorologist would be doing, but it sounds pretty impressive. Did you fall out with your buddy or is just an accident your haven't spoken for forty years? I have cousins I haven't spoken to in 40 years too. I have nothing against them. They're just not on my radar. I enjoy reading your Fiftys Days of Friendship.
Comment Written 14-Jul-2021
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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Thanks, Beth. We travel in different circles.
Comment from kahpot
An interesting story, intriguing end, "I see him from afar now and then but we haven't spoken in forty years" "two headed babies" reeks of incest, a wonderful read and thanks to the marines all was normal, an excellent insight, ****kahpot
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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An interesting story, intriguing end, "I see him from afar now and then but we haven't spoken in forty years" "two headed babies" reeks of incest, a wonderful read and thanks to the marines all was normal, an excellent insight, ****kahpot
Comment Written 14-Jul-2021
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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Thanks, kahpot.
Comment from nomi338
Your experience bears a lot of similarity to my own experience. My best friend and I turned down an audition with Motown to join the Army. he was taken right away, while I being underweight was given a month to gain four pounds wound up joining the Air force a month later. I saw my old buddy once about six years later and have not seen him since.
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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Your experience bears a lot of similarity to my own experience. My best friend and I turned down an audition with Motown to join the Army. he was taken right away, while I being underweight was given a month to gain four pounds wound up joining the Air force a month later. I saw my old buddy once about six years later and have not seen him since.
Comment Written 14-Jul-2021
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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Buddy system means ?on the same planet?.
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Apparently. LOL. Translation: You cannot trust recruiters, they lie like rugs.
Comment from blondie560
Did you do basic training at Fort Pendleton? My husband was there in 1967. Shipped to Vietnam and discharged in 1969. He figured he'd be drafted, and he wanted out of his father's way, so he enlisted. Turned out he wouldn't have gotten drafted after all. He doesn't speak of it much at all. You do have some colorful relatives as I recall some other stories of cousins. Thanks, Bill for sharing more of your stories. Sally
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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Did you do basic training at Fort Pendleton? My husband was there in 1967. Shipped to Vietnam and discharged in 1969. He figured he'd be drafted, and he wanted out of his father's way, so he enlisted. Turned out he wouldn't have gotten drafted after all. He doesn't speak of it much at all. You do have some colorful relatives as I recall some other stories of cousins. Thanks, Bill for sharing more of your stories. Sally
Comment Written 14-Jul-2021
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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Thanks, Sally, for giving this a look. I was trained at MCRD San Diego which is near Camp Pendleton. I was in the Marines from 74 through 98.
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I meant to say Camp. I knew fort was wrong but couldn't think of the word camp!
Comment from lyenochka
You let your cousin / second cousin? (or whatever relation if he is the grandson of your mother's aunt's ??) sign you up for the Marines? I guess it wasn't much of a "buddy system" if you were in separate platoons. Glad you both got out safe and alive! Thanks to both of you for serving.
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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You let your cousin / second cousin? (or whatever relation if he is the grandson of your mother's aunt's ??) sign you up for the Marines? I guess it wasn't much of a "buddy system" if you were in separate platoons. Glad you both got out safe and alive! Thanks to both of you for serving.
Comment Written 14-Jul-2021
reply by the author on 14-Jul-2021
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Thanks, lyenochka. I discovered a lot about what people say and the actual truth while in the Marines. Sometimes they are the sa ? similar.
