JMJ

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Prologue 54-67 - France

Military 54-57

I gave it thought,,before I write my story who was I?? Where did I fit in the military? What led up to one of the best years in my life. So, education I had graduated from "Wayne junior High 9th grade in New jersey, From there I had went to Cedar keys Florida with my foster parents but never went to school in Dec 49.....I joined the Army Dec 13 1950..I went to the Korean war,, and made PFC (Private first Class) I would stay a PFC for many years.Yes education did play a factor....What would help me is they made a new rank Specialist 4th,5th class.That would come later.....In the Army and other services you were known partly by your serial number,,Example mine was RA 14 385 23 another would star with US.....An RA meant you were regular Army in other words you joined the Army..A US before your number meant you had been drafted.

My relative mostly lived in New Jersey..My sisters Mary, Flora and my Brother Bill,,and My Mother,,,

That next time I joined the Army I would stay until retirement..because of my education I went from a good job to a worse job.

Elvis Presley. Nat King Cole, Doris day, Bob Hope,Bing Crosby,,,were the stars of the day,,,...
I smoked a little,,,Pipe, cigar and cigarette but still a little,,,You have to smoke a Dutch cigar and cigarette to appreciate a good tobacco.

Church when I got to France I went to the local french Church....I read some very good spiritual books,, by St.Augustine,,,Seven Story Mountain by the Trappist Thomas Merton..and the Bible,,,
Television took a long time to start in France,,,During a festival I saw one for a moment that they had set up but not until 1959 I actually saw a TV in a French mans home,,,,
Communist was the word of politics,,54 to 57 my three year vacation.....began..1956 one of those years like good wine gets better every year.