No apologies needed for me, I think it was great to bandy those
thoughts/feelings/issues about .  More is fine by me. I didn't comment much,
and have lots of thoughts about it of course. You could do it on turbovans
yahoo group if you want to group discuss- no restrictions on speech or topic
there ! 
Scott
www.turbovans.comm 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Pensioner
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:29 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Punkin time

I apologize somewhat for starting the Veterans day thread.  It's 8 peeyem on
the left coast and Veterans day is nearly done on the right coast.  Be that
as it may, as a veteran (1961-63 MAAG), I'm glad my posts at least got many
of us to think about things that we perhaps would not have considered being
fully consumed in tires, lights, mileage, holes in the netting, leaky fuel
lines and the other threads of interest.

Our youngest vanagons are nearing 20, our 'nam vets are nearing 60, the
Desert Storm vets are almost 40, our WWII vets are very old and failing yet
still standing proud when they can.

So thank you all for thinking about those who served.  Visit a VA facility
in your spare time and do what you think is appropriate.

I shook hands with nine vets today, three from WWII, five from Viet Nam, and
one from Desert Storm. It was easy.

Now back to your regularly scheduled....before midnight turns us into
punkins.

Pensioner