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NOTE: In several passages I refer to someone in perjorative language. They told me I did not have a choice. My Company Commander had told me that when I got out of the DeWitt Army Hospital at Ft.Belvoir. My operation had been a success except for a hitch or two.Apparently I had told a dyke of a Major, in no uncertain terms, that she was a bully who I did NOT respect. Then there was the candy bar. The wounded were rolling in from Vietnam, and my surgery was considered either elective or non-fatal, so after they cleaned out my alimentari...
Poutine anyone? Now every border crossing gives you a little anxiety, but these guys were nice and efficient. Pretty easy, usual questions, what you gonna do, where you gonna go, you got any guns? “Guns?” “Yes sir we are going bear hunting up north.” OK, pull over here so we can inventory them so you can take them back out without paying tax on them.” We opened our gun cases and they took down the serial numbers of all of them and input them into their computer system, which is interlaced with the American NCIC, National Crime Information...
If I don't tell this is Non-Fiction, likely no one will believe it. I guess it ain't right to blame them. As I looked out the rain streaked window on Don's van as we headed south from the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls Border station I had some real mixed feelings seeing the Red and Green STOP and GO lights on the Customs Booths. A week out in the woods devoid of officialdom smoothed out some of the feelings I was having. I could not say “I never want to see this place again, ever.” But to a man, all six of us felt nothing but relief w...
-NON-FICTION - Never ends up how ya think. Nice calm day, so we three, piled into the Mazda Pickup, Diane got stuck with the jump seat in theXtra cab. It was a compact truck with an extra seat, just no door.Doll and I were up front and it took about 30 minutes to get up to theChena River Salmon Counting Ramp.July 4th, and the salmon counters were working. A civilian concrete footbridge spanned the painted concrete footers underneath the footbridge. Three foot wide stripes of white paint made each fish visible as it powered up against the cur...
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