06-24-2021, 07:25 AM
(12-15-2020, 11:38 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I lived in northern Indiana for a bit like a hundred years ago in my youth and went to boot camp at Great Lakes/Chicago.
I spent 50 years one winter at Great Lakes Naval Training.. The blizzard of 77.. Ever march on 4 feet of snow packed down to a quarter inch when it's 49 below zero? I can't even begin to describe just how much fun that is.. Just the curvature of the earth alone is enough to make your body slide sideways on it.
My very first memory there was revile @ 4am.. it came over the loud speakers.. REVILE, REVILE! IT'S A BALMY 49 BELOW OUTSIDE! It never got even a tiny bit better..until I became a regular citizen again and no longer property of Uncle Samuel.. Anyone who ever said navy boot camp makes a man of you missed the part about making you hate anything cold. Lol
I even got to meet Captain Henderson..and not under ideal circumstances..
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
