Posted by El Toro on June 17, 2011 at 05:56:50 from (108.15.86.54):
In Reply to: Night Job posted by 37chief on June 16, 2011 at 20:56:30:
Before I was drafted in 1953 I was working for the US Government and helping my dad with the morning milking. We were up by 4am and I left for the Proving Ground around 0630 to catch my ride. I would get off work at 4:30pm and the Korean War was on and at times I would take the car and go back and work 4 hours overtime. We wouldn't get off until 10pm. Get home around 11 and shower and up at 4am. We were working weekends too. When I finished basic training and ended up at Ft Bragg I thought I was on vacation. We were up by 6am and go for a run and come back and go to breakfast. Then you had to brush your teeth. I always shaved in the evening. Still do that. We would work late if you had company duties like KP. Normally we were off by 5pm. Was rehired when I was discharged back at the proving ground as a returning vet. Still worked a lot of overtime and my dad had to give up farming as he was getting up in years. I was going with my wife back in 1952 and sometimes I wouldn't get in until late until it was time to get up. I would nap on the way to work and on the way home. My older brother had joined the Air Force in 1951 to escape the draft and he didn't come back to the farm. I also married in 1953. Hal
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