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ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) wrote:

>Yes, it's an interesting custom you have over there.

Don't blame us.  For better or for worse, we got it the same place
y'all got a lot of yours.  It was the evil, evil English.

>But the rest of 
>us sometimes wonder why so many fathers condemn their sons to go 
>through life called "Junior".  Not so bad once it gets to the IIIrd I 
>admit, as that sounds almost regal.

Actually, it wasn't the Johnson or the III part that proved
troublesome.  It was the Ogden which made my survival through grade
school questionable on all too many occasions.

>Fair enough.  [Given that, you might be interested to know that the 
>local Nam vets are causing their annual ructions around here by 
>setting up camp again in one of the more remote national parks on Cape 
>York Peninsula about 400 km north of Cairns.  The camp is to mark 
>remembrance of the Battle of Long Tan, and the spokesman for the group 
>is Major Les Hiddins (TV's popular "Bush Food" man) who wrote the army 
>manual on survival in the Australian bush in about 1980 and has a huge 
>public profile.  All very embarrassing to the Queensland state 
>government who claim the vets have no right to be there; but quite 
>hilarious for the onlookers to see the QG caught in such a PR bind!]

However much we may differ among ourselves on all the questions
concerning VN, all VN vets have one thing in common.  We take extreme
delight in tweaking the REMFs, bureaucrats, and politicians, and their
descendants, who were responsible for or added to our travails in VN.
They deserve every discomfort we can inflict, at any time we can
inflict it.  Glad to see the Aussie contingent are holding up their
end.  ;->

OJ III
[Whose father knew what the Ogden would do to me, so gave me a
nickname at birth.  It helped.  Sometimes.  Fifty-two years later I
still wear the scars of one notable third-grade battle.]