I want to take this opportunity to wish all my brothers the very best thru the upcoming holidays and following year. This time of year sends me back to 1967 when we spent a Christmas that just wasn't white at all. I remember that one of my aunts sent me a small artificial Christmas tree less than a foot tall. It had a wind up feature like a music box and played a Christmas carol. We had it in our Delta Co. tent at Uplift and if I didn't get to it fast enough someone else in the tent would be rewinding it. We practically wore that tree out before we were back to the field. When we came back from the field I found that someone had requisitioned that tree and that was perfectly alright as I knew that others somewhere were enjoying it also. My aunt has since passed on but I will never forget her or her precious gift that we so enjoyed at a time when so little meant so much. MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my brothers in my 1/50th family.
RANDY "DOC" SMITH