Post by Doc on Dec 12, 2004 10:01:04 GMT -5
Here is a story about restroom walls
I served on a platoon size hill. To start with we just had 2 wooden boxes over a 1/2 of a barrow. So when you went to the restroom you showed your butt to the whole hill, plus you were very exposed to Charlie sitting there with your pants down. It even gets better. Right in front of the shitters is our horseshoe pit. You're setting there trying to do your thing and every time someone hollers ringer you quench a little. To the right is the LZ. Have you ever had a sandblasted ass? It even gets better at night. While 10 mosquitoes circle your head and you swatting them away 20 will bite you on the ass. Did I mention the RAINRAINRAIN AND RAIN?
They brought us a new 4-setter one day. You talk about uptown, 5th Avenue and Beverly Hills. This was the MAX of all latrines. We had a roof over our head. Screen wire half way down on three sides. The back and bottom half were covered with plywood. Now we can set their not showing our butt to Charlie. We can set on the side line and cheer on the horse shoe game. Let it rain, we can set there and listen to the rain drops falling on the roof. Damn mosquito got me on the butt again. Just as soon as they unloaded this new latrine are Sargent posted a poem inside it.
HE WHO WRITES
UPON THESE WALLS
WILL ROLL HIS
SHIT INTO LITTE
BITTY BALLS.
Sgt Bolton
This is the only latrine that I ever saw in Vietnam with out any grafiti upon the walls.No peace sign. No ---- Vietnam. Not even a sweetheart name. Thanks Marine Gunner Bolton I'll never forget that poem are you. DOC.
I served on a platoon size hill. To start with we just had 2 wooden boxes over a 1/2 of a barrow. So when you went to the restroom you showed your butt to the whole hill, plus you were very exposed to Charlie sitting there with your pants down. It even gets better. Right in front of the shitters is our horseshoe pit. You're setting there trying to do your thing and every time someone hollers ringer you quench a little. To the right is the LZ. Have you ever had a sandblasted ass? It even gets better at night. While 10 mosquitoes circle your head and you swatting them away 20 will bite you on the ass. Did I mention the RAINRAINRAIN AND RAIN?
They brought us a new 4-setter one day. You talk about uptown, 5th Avenue and Beverly Hills. This was the MAX of all latrines. We had a roof over our head. Screen wire half way down on three sides. The back and bottom half were covered with plywood. Now we can set their not showing our butt to Charlie. We can set on the side line and cheer on the horse shoe game. Let it rain, we can set there and listen to the rain drops falling on the roof. Damn mosquito got me on the butt again. Just as soon as they unloaded this new latrine are Sargent posted a poem inside it.
HE WHO WRITES
UPON THESE WALLS
WILL ROLL HIS
SHIT INTO LITTE
BITTY BALLS.
Sgt Bolton
This is the only latrine that I ever saw in Vietnam with out any grafiti upon the walls.No peace sign. No ---- Vietnam. Not even a sweetheart name. Thanks Marine Gunner Bolton I'll never forget that poem are you. DOC.