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Firebase near VCB 1969 Dewey Canyon, drawn by Silas Levi from a picture of  a Marine Firebase in North I Corp RVN Actual picture of Home is where you dig it. near VCB/LZ Stud 1969 1971 Sgt of the Guard Gitmo, Cuba   Boot Camp Parris Island January 1968      Standing on the passenger side of the bench seat in my mother's 54 Olds looking out the windows as she drove the dirt roads into town was cool to this kid. I would hold my hand out the window and pretend I was flying. There was one paved highway we eventually got to then she would say to me “Roll the window up son, I am gonna be doin 60 now we're on the highway!” There were no child seats and most disdained any restraint like seat belts. My 5 year old mind could not conceive the mileage, speed and distance back then. I could only watch as the telephone & power poles started to go by like fence posts as mom speed-ed up the powerful V8 car on the blacktop high way into the smal...

A new friend on the docks told me of a gun store that has to be seen if I was down that way. I have a fondness for quality fire arms that goes way back, maybe to Roy Rogers or the Lone Ranger or Have Gun Will Travel or Well you know if you were around during those times. Before President Kennedy was killed you could go to the big Army-Navy Surplus stores in Atlanta and they had left over WW2 and Korean war relics in piles. I recall a pile of rifles and my dad saying pick one when I was about 12 or so. He did not want me roaming the woods with out a fire arm. We came home with a WW2 rifle and a big box of ammo for $12.00. Later when I was 14 he gave me his Colt Woodsman 22 made in 1934. I still have it. I carried that Colt Woodsman every where except school, and then it was in my car when I was old enough to drive. I shot hundreds of squirrels and rabbits with it.  As most of us at that time we were very sad and shocked when JFK was slain. I felt something should be done and joined ...