Sorry, Chumpo. You said fifty years.

1963: graduated from high school, enlisted in the National Guard, spent the rest of the year in Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training (Ft. Leonard Wood, Ft. Riley, respectively).

1964: worked, started college.

Ever make tombstones, Chumpo? By hand? And set them by hand? Ever had the only water available come from a well downhill from the graves? Ever worked in a cemetery where you could FEEL that you weren't wanted, that you should hurry up and finish and leave? I have.