Dad favorite saying WTF Memories of Appalachia our first bonafide Vietnamese sighting
A ramble my brother went home I’m wide awake had a lot of coffee,Anyway we wrapped up night fishing around 02:00. The boys were breaking their necks trying stay awake, we trailered the fv fishing vessel polish around 23:00 and built a fire and fished rest night from the shore. So we get back home and the boys head to bed and my brother and I hang on back porch shooting the breeze.
He hung around as he likes beer and his wife of 28 years like my wife of 33 years has fine tuned beerdar. Seriously before I quit drinking I could be in the basement my wife upstairs in kitchen, and I would pop a barley soda and I’d hear what are you doing hon. I’d reply nothing and think how does she know, to quote the holy grail Michael palin she’s a witch I’d try to reason it out that is my conclusion on my dear wife’s beerdar.
So instead of going home and getting the look from his wife he hung with me, I won’t give him the look. My brother and I were a lot alike proud union workers veterans a 50 and 53 year old mentally immature adult children. Example we were talking about a prisoner snatch in kidnapping our youngest brother from his new marriage and family republican Jesus Fox News kkklan. I said dude he’s blood we could roll over middle night kick in door duct tape his misses and snatch his ass and de program him with hours of Bernie Sanders videos. We could use the garage as a hide sight, I said we could pull it off we were both former infantry.
So we get to shooting the breeze and he brings up our father. The old man was hardcore seriously a United steel mill worker 31 years and retired. Unfortunately he passed like two years later car accident. Ok he lost leg his second tour in Vietnam two tours with 173rd he was gonna make army a career but his outlook on life fuck it it was just a leg I’m walking above ground.
This was probably I don’t know 1976 maybe later our mom and church really were involved in the boat lift and several families were relocated too our little soon to be huge economic depression real estate the rust belt. Yup the steel mills were gonna get there asses kicked and the pit mines already were on the ropes. Regan cheese and getting drenched with golden shower trickledown economics was what maybe five years away.
So I remember as my bro this Vietnamese family the church is helping and our parents were really involved and all of a sudden our old man is speaking Vietnamese to these people wow my brother and I were blown away not sure how fluent he was. But we were thinking like WTF dad speaks Vietnamese ,so fast forward too 84 I get home from meps.
Old man - did you enlist
Me - yea I did
Old man - you scored really well on asvab did you get heavy equipment operator like you wanted.
Me - No I took infantry with guarantee airborne slot my attitude go big or don’t go
Old man - immediately in my face from sitting at kitchen table WTF you dumb ass what did I tell you.
So my brother and I were laughing as he had the same exact WTF dumb ass speech like 18 months later when he came home and informed our parents he will be leaving for Parris Island it’s cool I’m gonna be 0311. I asked did he wreak of pabst blue ribbon, he said you know I think he did. So we’re laughing our asses off this morning over what we find humorous in memories because we’re both easily amused especially by shiny objects.
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