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    FS> Immediately after Pearl Harbor I decided to join the   
    FS> Marines.  That would have been a terrible mistake since I   
    FS> tend to avoid fighting, preferring to negotiate.  What got   
      
    A vary famous marine became famous for that very skill. Of   
    course, there was the fact that he spoke fluent Japanese.   
      
    FS> into me at the time was the general patriotism following   
    FS> the attack on Pearl Harbor.  I would have been the only   
    FS> Marine in the Corps attempting to negotiate with the   
    FS> Japanese ... I can almost hear the Japanese troops now as   
    FS> they see me, "Negotiate?  Hell no!  Shoot that round-eyed   
    FS> sucker!!" (In Japanese, of course)   
      
    You would have confused them so much they wouldn't stand a   
    chance.   
      
    FS> Fortunately before I had a chance to go to Chicago to   
    FS> enlist in the Marines, the US Army made changes in their   
    FS> requirements for Aviation Cadet training.  I decided to go   
    FS> that route and, fortunately, dropped the Marine move.   
      
    Which got you working on aircraft hydraulics. Hmmm... different   
    definition of "Aviation Cadet".   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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