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Blogs by Terry W Sako
Setting the stage for "395 and a Wake Up"
10/28/2006 8:01:51 AM
Greetings,
My name is Terry Sako, aka “Chicago,” a moniker I haven’t used for close to forty years; ever since I was a young Marine in the Vietnam War. Legally, I was a man back then, but believe me, I was just a boy. Actually, a teenager . . . barely nineteen; face strewn with acne, and tooling around with a raging case of libido (being that I still was a virgin). Can you dig that? Nineteen . . . and my virtue unsullied. But it was the 60s, and that was the norm for most of us. Or so it seemed to me.
I spent eighteen months over there in “Never Neverland,” and no way would I ever be the same.
If I can quote the words of a song by P.F.Sloan, written back yonder in 1965:
“You’re old enough to kill
But not for votin’
You don’t believe in war
But what’s that gun you’re totin’”
And weren’t those words a real enlightenment (read: kick in the teeth).
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More Blogs by Terry W Sako
• Vietnam--Innocence Lost - Sunday, April 27, 2008
• Vietnam-Dull Daze - Friday, February 15, 2008
• Vietnam--Family of Man - Wednesday, October 17, 2007
• Vietnam--Onward Christian Soldiers - Thursday, July 26, 2007
• Vietnam--Let the Sideshow Begin - Tuesday, June 05, 2007
• Vietnam--Virgin Urgin' - Monday, April 30, 2007
• Vietnam—Hurryup and . . . wait - Friday, March 30, 2007
• Vietnam--Forced Reckoning - Sunday, March 04, 2007
• Gomer Pyle—Endeth - Saturday, February 10, 2007
• Gomer Pyle Hangeth (in there) - Thursday, January 25, 2007
• Gomer Pyle Endure(th) - Thursday, January 11, 2007
• Gomer Pyle Stayeth - Thursday, December 28, 2006
• Gomer Pyle Cometh . . . - Wednesday, December 13, 2006
• When men were men were men . . . - Friday, November 24, 2006
• Camelot - Friday, November 10, 2006
• Setting the stage for "395 and a Wake Up" - Saturday, October 28, 2006
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