Cure or Disease?

A condom serves as a very fine balloon,though a small protrusion is at the top, when filled with helium and attached to a string.  (see side bar re: sex in raincoats)  It was suggested they be worn in tandem for there proper function (military redundancy!) though the twice daily VD sick call testified to either a very high failure rate or improper usage.  The Balloons were quite amusing.

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Malaria pills were offered as a palliative against this disease. The cereal bowl full of them at the end of the chow line  we were told may me taken one per week if we desired to be assured of not contracting the disease. The diarrhea experienced by the end of the third week  was the uninformed certainty that stopped all but the most compulsive pill taker.  I decided they were there for the amusement of the experienced.
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Home again, Home again, Jiggity Jig

Thomas Wolff warns us of the impossibility of  'going home again'. Not that we shouldn't in a nostalgic way but in an idealistic and realistic way. We imagine we  will but it will never be. As we separate from our home path to the experience outside its influence and environs we are becoming something apart from it. We glance back on parting, either in place or in mind and we imagine our return. But we can't recapture our place or ourselves, at least not as it and we once were.
Col Olds' addressed this in his farewell speech, warning us. He knew.

Eats and Drinks

Coming soon to a chow hall near you!  Breaded Prawns!!! YUM O!!  Supply screw up.
Sent more than could be stored long term.   Prawns on the chowline every meal for three weeks!!! I'm 61. I still don't eat Breaded Prawns!!!!
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If it came in a rusty can...(steel can/aluminum top, the weld seam din't hold up in tropical storage and sent streamers of rust cascading through the beer as you poured it into your glass) It  must be Carling Black Label!!!   Good times with a cool one on the Patio (next to the swimming pool with no water in it.  YA. Thought you'd remember.)!!!!
First  one or two Pabst in the aluminum cans...15c?  then on to wasted on the 5c Carling Black Label!!!!!  O YA!!!!!
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Goodbye, Memock!

Memock has posted his last entry to 'Life in Rural Thailand'.  The restaurant has been sold and they have said their farewells to Seerung's  family after their extended vacation through southern Thailand. If you haven't yet, visit his blog. 
He contacted me through this blog curious about life in Ubon during the Vietnam War and what his restaurant was then, being just outside the front gate of UBON RTAFB.
His blog has been a pleasure to follow and a wonderful connection to a place I knew in far different times.  His blog has allowed me to reconnect with several guys I was stationed there with in 1969.  The photos and movies/videos sent to him by former servicemen have been an awesome experience to view.  Through his blog Thailand became less a land far, far away and long, long ago for me.
Thank you, Andrew.