The cold freezing drizzle from last night, turned to rain with accompanying fog this morning, and as temperatures rose into the upper 30s, our ground cover began to melt....that is not destined to last however, as more snow is forecast for Thursday, then the bottom will drop out of the forecast...lows near zero with single digit high temperatures for the early part of the weekend.
Junior High basketball double last night at Delphos St. Johns, again tonight at St. Marys, then depending on the snow amounts and road conditions, another 6 games starting Thursday and lasting through Saturday Night. After basketball last night, I headed back to Celina, for Dartball. We played perinneal champion Schumm Lutheran, out of Van Wert County, whom had swept us 3 games to none early in the season. Matter of fact, despite beating them a couple of times in tournament play over my 16 years, I can never remember us sweeping them in a 3 game series. That all changed last night, somehow our struggling team of old men and young untested kids, pulled out a three game sweep, by the scores of 5-3, 4-2, and 6-5, crawling out in the last game from an early 5-nothing hole. This moves us to 5 wins 4 loses on the second half of the season, after the miserable 6 win 15 loss first half. Arriving late in the first game, I went 4 for 9 with a couple triples and 2 RBIs, to move to .357 with 12 runs batted in for the season. I'm still down about 100 points from last season, but plenty of time left to creep towards .400, if I don't have any terrible nights.
Waking up early this morning, I headed to Minster to get some blood drawn, will head back tomorrow morning for my semi-annual checkup. Blood Pressure, pre-Diabetes 2 update, and medication renewal.
This morning and early afternoon, I spent checking out a couple of "burned" CDs to see if I should change the music on this blog....my jukebox has got some breaks in it...at least certain songs do. I also down loaded some photos from Nha Trang, that were put on CD, but my old NCOIC, the late Phil Lange, and fellow Sky Cop, Bill Morgan...I'll add more diverse shots from that time to future posts as we move forward into 2011.
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Photos from Nha Trang Air Base 1969...top, me with a V100...we used several of these with our "on call" SAT(Security Alert Team) groups. TSgt Phil Lange, my NCOIC at Nha Trang, we met 30 years later when we found the VSPA on line, sadly Phil passed away in 2009, but gave me several items from our days at Nha Trang, as well as a life time membership in the Vietnam Security Police Association, before he left this earth. "Bailey's Speakeasy", our own Security Police hangout..movies, a bar, and the occasional "cook out" when our "gofers" could wrassell up steaks, burgers, and fixings....and the RED STAR marks Nha Trang on the South China Sea...a top Vietnam vacation spot today(and frankly not bad duty in 1969, for being in a war zone).
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2 comments:
I like your pictures Brother. As we get older we look on the past as a time that shaped who we are and what we have become. We mellow in some ways. Maybe now it is time to get some of the past straightened out and show others who we are and who we were. We don't need to be pitied but respected for having stood the line. Because of that we have a deep burning passion for the units we served under and the country we love. We still dedicate our lives to our beliefs and our loves for others. I do what I have to do for my family, friends, and those who I hold in the utmost respect, My brothers and sisters of the USAF and especially the Security Forces/Police.
Thanks for stopping by Mike and feel free to send me any 377th SPS photos, for some reason, working C flight Security I didn't get the photo numbers I did on A Flight LE at Nha Trang...
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