On my 18th birthday I went to Houston and signed up for the draft as ordered. Headed on over to the USAF recruiter and joined the AF a couple of hours later. Gave them 9 years.
Got sworn in and a "panty" wagon took me and 2 draftees over too a medical facility to get a physical, I think that's when I was in the wagon with them......sad looking guys they were. Don't remember what branch drafted them; thinking it was Army. I felt for them. I signed up so that I could choose what I was going to do and for whom.
Anyway, we get there get briefed and were handed a purple bag with draw strings. We were to put our valuables in it and come out and line up around the side of this big room whereby the doc. would come by and have a look. Always a jokester but this wasn't a time for one: So as you looked around the room, everybody had their valuables (from their pockets) in their bag holding it in one hand except for one:
He had his tied "guess where".........his reply to the doc. was that they said "all your valuables"..........doc. didn't think it was funny nor did the corps man.......but the rest of the room roared.
On time flying, thinking back to parochial school when the days of the week dragged by and how fast they go by today, I was just getting into double digits of age then so 5 school days was a pretty good part of the size of my life. Today at 76 it's nothing, so yes, time flies.
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