Re: [Paddlewise] SUVs and other stuff

Should have added that I wasn't allowed by my parents to get one,
but most tough kids had long hair and a used, patched up, US Army 
jacket - sometimes complemented by army trousers, but always army-style
boots, or Wellingtons! 

Seems to recall that my sister had a US Army jacket, but she was a bit more
rebellious, and older (retired now!). A corncob pipe was also part
of her attire, as for so many others! What was smoked differed from 
person to person, though! 

A friend's mom gave me her son's long, down-filled, Canadian hunter's jacket
(my friend had outgrown it and used his dad's, so I got his leftover). It 
had tough, green cotton canvas on the outside, and a brilliant red liner 
- I had it for years and years, almost year round, and it didn't look too 
different from the US Army jackets, but lacked the stripes, bullet holes, 
though. So I was almost one of the gang :-)!

Some actually got hold of genuine Swedish Army clothes (not on sale
in those days), but those were rare, and almost got us shot, by nervous 
American sentries in Denmark near a DEW line radar station - excellent
place for bird watching, by the way, and by a Swedish sentry outside
another secret radar station, situated inside a Swedish National Park 
- long story, but it was during the cold war years, and things 
were so different then! 

We were just dumb teenage bird watchers, of course, but army garb, cameras, 
long lenses, telescopes and sturdy tripods can look very intimidating if 
you have been trained to believe that the enemy might attack any day! 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie Myers" 
To: "Tord S. Eriksson" 
Cc: paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] SUVs and other stuff
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:54:25 -0700




Tord S. Eriksson wrote:

> war, like the US army garb we used as kids during the Viet Nam 
> War years - the more bulletholes the cooler you were!!!
>
>


Really?   interesting...... Jackie


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