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I'm a daughter of a veteran. Is it okay if I post here?
"US Air Force Rules:
1. Have a cocktail."
While my father was attending officer training in Brownsville ,Texas -1957-58?
He was amazed by the two fountains. A fountain of champagne & a fountain of Manhattans. They were well trained to drink like Manly grown up Frat bros.
I remember the day my father sat us down for an important goodbye.
He was heading for the alert-shacks during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
My dad was a navigator & his best friend pilot was his Colonel.
I was too young at that time to grasp the gravity of the political situation,
but I'll never forget the grave look on my father's face,
and my mother's silent trembling as the three of us sat on the rough-textured nubbly colorless sofa.
The guys waiting for orders in the alert-shacks played numerous games of cribbage,
to pass the time.
Dad taught me how to play cribbage when I was eight. He was a good teacher.
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