"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

"Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation,' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), from his Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

	Bill Bowe	Bill put together an amazing narrative and set of photos of his military career.
	Dan Kamm	I served 6 years in the US Army Reserves, the 327th MP unit stationed at O'Hare, from 66-72. Attached is a photo (small and full) of me at basic training at Ft. Dix, NJ, approx. April, 1967. Please do not laugh too hard.
	Karle Meyer	On 11/22/1963 my mother informed me that my draft notice had come in the mail. And, oh, by the way president Kennedy had been assassinated. Mother felt that my going in the Army was a little more important.    After reviewing my options I decided that I might die in water if I joined the Navy, but I would not have to crawl through it from Chicago to Alabama as I would surly do in the Army. I entered the Navy in January 1964 and went to boot camp in San Diego. I was then sent to Pensacola, FL until the end of 1994 when I was then transferred to the aircraft carrier USS Midway on the west coast. We were to do a casual and comfortable Westpac cruise of the Pacific Ocean going to Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, India, around Africa, and then to the East Coast. However, in Hawaii we were asked to join another carrier on Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam.    We then spent the next 9 months supporting the war in Vietnam. I worked in Air Intelligence, so I got to see all the photos and knew pretty much what was going on and where we were. I was able to fly into Saigon and spend the day touring the capital. Saigon was a beautiful city with wide boulevards and lovely buildings. Remember this was early in the war and there were not many military there yet.    I really enjoyed the action on the carrier. It is amazing how smoothly and efficiently the flight deck works. I used to enjoy going to one of the upper decks and watch the flight operations. Watching planes launched from 0 to 150 mph in about 3 seconds was always interesting. Just the size and complexity of the carrier system was amazing. We burned 15000 gallons of fuel per hour and consumed about 1 million gallons of aviation fuel in 3-5 days. We served meals 22 hours a day to 4500 men and made 600 loves of bread per day. I even had my appendix removed while at sea. In late 1965 the carrier was ordered to San Francisco for a 2 year refurbishment. The Midway was launched in 1945 and needed a little, no, a lot of updating. Most of the spaces had no air conditioning and it was hot in the South China Sea.    I was then sent to Hawaii to serve on the Staff of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet. I roughed it out at Pearl Harbor and the beaches of Hawaii for the remainder of my enlistment. I was relieved from active duty in May of 1967.
	Arnold Sprague	I joined the Army after grad school and went to Basic and AIT at Ft. Dix and Infantry OCS at Ft. Benning. I was commissioned in the Adjutant General Corps and served my time in Okinawa. I was in for nearly three years.    Why we lost the war: I was sent TDY to Phu Cat, Tinh Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. As the huge Air Force C-141 was on approach to a postage stamp sized runway, all anyone could see were large red bomb craters in the bright green rice paddies. I thought this certainly has to be one of the dumbest ways to win the hearts-and-minds of the Vietnamese people.
	Peter Van Nice	I served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1966 to 1972.

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