@Smokin Joe
Remember "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers",and "Fat Freddy" and his cat?
GREAT stuff. I had every issue at one time,and my mother threw them away. He excuse was "Well,you had already read them".
Hell,she had already given away all my uniforms and other stuff I sent home when I was medievaced from VN,and had already given it all away before I got home to discover the only clothes I had to wear were the dress greens I was wearing. Her excuse that time was "You can always get more uniforms from the army,and wear them."
She also gave away the new jungle boots,the new poncho liners,and all sorts of other personal items in the crate. Because of her "generosity",I didn't have a single set of jungle fatigues to wear when I got to Bragg.
She did that with everything that wasn't of immediate use. Did it her whole life,and you just couldn't break her of it.
Man, you really needed a bro you could trust to sit on your stuff until you caught up with it.
A lot of stuff I had at my folks' got ruined, but that was humidity, salt air, time, and silverfish, who literally ate the ink off the pages, right down to a 4X8 Nixon Agnew campaign poster. One little Carter for Prez poster survived. I guess those bugs wouldn't even eat
it...
A few things survived, most did not, and some just got lost along the way. Ones I miss most were a ca. 1720 (brass) wedding band I found, and the WWII Army Air Force Flight Pants I had, that I wore in -60 weather w/a 40 MPH wind and still stayed functionally warm. (The Nomex III outfit I replaced them with years later cost over a grand, and just isn't the same as the old ones). Lately winters have been so warm that all that cold weather gear is too hot to wear outside, especially if a guy is doing anything much. Funny, though, how I still have my first p38, a gift from a friend, hanging on a key chain.
