...during Viet Nam the national guard did not go there. At the time it was a draft dodger's country club.

Well, for goodness' sakes! I didn't know that! Here I went and thought all these years that when the 126th Supply and Service Company of the Illinois National Guard, the 69th Brigade of the NG (based in Kansas and suchlike places), Company C, 151st Infantry (LRRP) of the Indiana National Guard were all activated on 15 May 1968 for a period of up to two years Federal active duty! I only thought that me, my brother, 8 of my cousins, and a bunch of other guys were sent with the 126th to Ft. Carson, Colorado and then eventually the unit was sent to Chu Lai, Vietnam in September, 1968 and didn't return until August, 1969 (me, I thought I'd been seperated and sent to the Republic of Korea in January, 1969 and came home that August).

Instead, I find that I was in a draft dodger's country club! I was actually sitting on the veranda sipping cool drinks and discussing my golf game and my tennis raquet, probably saying stuff like, "Ah, yes, my good man, certainly is nice of those chappies to dirty their uniforms...care for another?"

I guess that the 126th didn't win a second Meritorous Unit Citation and those guys we thought were killed in convoy ambushes are actually spending this Christmas playing with their grandchildren, too.

Golly, the things you can learn!