Reply #5: Nice list. Here is mine. [View All]

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

not in any particular order...

1. Looking down for the last time on the US Embassy in Saigon and seeing NVA armor approaching from all sides.
2. Picking up thousands of boat people in the South China Sea over the next couple of years.
3. Picking up thousands of boat people in the Carribean a few years later.
4. Sitting on the flight deck of a carrier at dusk and seeing the space shuttle re-enter, a huge fireball in the darkening sky. By the time I had walked to the berthing area, it was landing at Edwards, and we were still in the Indian Ocean.
5. The first BIG drug bust I did.
6. The time I accidentally sank a brand new sailboat during a search by drilling deepr than I thought. The owner was screaming and yelling, but changed his tune when the packages of cocaine started floating up to the surface.
7. The face of the first person I knew that I had killed.
8. The day I got shot.
9. The other day I should have been killed, but somehow was not.

okay, this is getting morbid... that will do it.