(05-17-2021, 12:22 AM)drussell41 Wrote:(05-16-2021, 08:52 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(05-16-2021, 07:10 PM)drussell41 Wrote: My husband was a door gunner/crew chief there also. He never mentioned Viet Nam elephants.....only the herd killed in Rhodesia afterwards.
Was he RLI? They were accepting a lot of "foreign volunteers" into the RLI in Rhodesia back in the day. A lot of Vietnam vets found their way there.
"Be a man among men" was what all the RLI recruiting posters said.
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I asked; he doesn't want me to discuss it beyond saying it was for a game ranch. Sorry.
No problem. That tells me all I need to know. I know how things went in Rhodesia before it became Zimbabwe. He wasn't so very different from me during my Central American sojourn.
Sometimes you just gotta do a nocturne in the 10-ring.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’