Post by Fred M Pohl on Dec 12, 2004 9:49:37 GMT -5
I Had a buddy ofmine stationed In Saigon with the 716th Mp
bn One night I was coming off
Perimiter guard duty, My buddy
called me from Saigon I had finished eating dinner,and one of the guy told me someone on
the phone in the unit orderly
room in Saigon I got on the phone He said yo Fred I responded Pete? Hey buddy whats up? We are both railroad
enthusasist back in Philly
my home town Anyway were were
discusing our hobby for two
solid hours and if the VC picked up our signal they
wouldn;t know what it was all
about It was all about Trains
street cars and subways etc
The irony one say at my present job I was reading a model railroading magazine
and a Vietnamese woman i work
with told me she knew a guy who was a supply clerk who
read material I ask what outfit she told me 716th Mp Bn
I told her I had a buddy of mine there I asked her his
name and she told me Peter Kurtasz I aske is he from Philadelphia she sais yes
I spelled his name she said yes she described him to a tee
then she told me he was discussing railroading to a guy in an engineer unit in
Dong Tam I told her i wasthe guy he was talking to her mouth dropped a foot wide
I thought if this dont sum it all up I told her he was working for the Transit athority in my Home town
repairing rail cars he has been working for the Transit authority since he left the service I saw him at several
Model railway shows and meetings I think this is one for the books
bn One night I was coming off
Perimiter guard duty, My buddy
called me from Saigon I had finished eating dinner,and one of the guy told me someone on
the phone in the unit orderly
room in Saigon I got on the phone He said yo Fred I responded Pete? Hey buddy whats up? We are both railroad
enthusasist back in Philly
my home town Anyway were were
discusing our hobby for two
solid hours and if the VC picked up our signal they
wouldn;t know what it was all
about It was all about Trains
street cars and subways etc
The irony one say at my present job I was reading a model railroading magazine
and a Vietnamese woman i work
with told me she knew a guy who was a supply clerk who
read material I ask what outfit she told me 716th Mp Bn
I told her I had a buddy of mine there I asked her his
name and she told me Peter Kurtasz I aske is he from Philadelphia she sais yes
I spelled his name she said yes she described him to a tee
then she told me he was discussing railroading to a guy in an engineer unit in
Dong Tam I told her i wasthe guy he was talking to her mouth dropped a foot wide
I thought if this dont sum it all up I told her he was working for the Transit athority in my Home town
repairing rail cars he has been working for the Transit authority since he left the service I saw him at several
Model railway shows and meetings I think this is one for the books