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From: John G. Kalil, Jr., USAF/OSI (69-70)
Date: 5/29/2004
Time: 11:35:30 PM
Remote Name: 209.161.68.89
Dave:
It sounds like you were still in-country for about 4 months while I was there....I was there from Dec 69-Dec 70. From your previous message you must have left in Mar 70.
Funny how music stays with you. I listened to alot of AFVN Radio, so those songs are tattooed into my memory, along with the Can Tho memories. I made alot of courier runs between Can Tho and Binh Thuy and always had my transitor radio with me. Someone always had the radio on when I was working in Can Tho, or drinking and playing cards at night, or just about anytime. Although I'm not a country & western fan, I also remember that song, "Okie from Muskogee" and a song by Jerry Reed, "Amos Moses". How about a song by Chicago, "25 or 6 to 4"? These were all 1970. I need to get one of those CD's, "Greatest Hits From _____." I need to find a 1970 version.
When I went on R&R to Bangkok (I always thought the name Bangkok was an appropriate name for a place with so many whore houses), the 1st bar I walk into, the DJ is playing "25 or 6 to 4" for the topless dancers.
I also remember the "corny humor" the AFVN DJ's used to dish out.....they even had a make believe radio soap opera.
I also remember listening to the AFVN baseball game of the day in the day (tape delay...game was already over) or at strange hours late at night or in the wee hours of the morning (live). That was probably the only time I could say I was homesick........listening to my Pittsburgh Pirates from half way around the globe.....and missed the last game at Forbes Field in June 1970 and missed the opening of Three Rivers Stadium the same month.
Hell.......they've already torn down Three Rivers Stadium and put up PNC Park to replace it!!! Damn we're getting old!
Best regards, John