I didn't mention my new project. When I was home Dad gave me a his photo album from his days in the Marine Corps. He also told me the whole story of how he ended up in the Corps and what he did while enlisted.

I now have his photo album and I bought a scanner. I plan to scan all his pictures into digital format, have him write down what he remembers of those places and people, and put it all together in an electronic album or a hard document. Once that's done I think I will start with other family photos.

He joined the Marines in Connecticut, went to basic training at Paris Island, and ended up and an engineering battalion working in Peking. His unit was one of the last to be pulled out of China when the USA realized it couldn't influence the outcome between the communists and the Kuomintang.

Time to go. I have a date with a beach and some warm salty water.