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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (6154)	3/21/2006 8:26:38 AM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 71588

Peter, I was not able to be in the active military either. Since I went to Texas A&M, was trained in military science, and a member of the corps for the first two years. Then when they offered me a contract, I asked for airborne, but since at that time, they would not accept men who wore glasses in the airborne units, I got mad, quit, and joined the National Guard in the rebuilding of the 36th Infantry Division that was so devastated by the taking of Anzio, and Selermo, beaches in Italy during WW11. When I moved back home after graduation, I had to transfer the 45th Division of Armored Cavalry, and was in a combat engineer company. By the time Korea came along, I was married, and had two kids, so they would not take me. For a long time I was angry that with all that training, I missed my war. When the 6 day war started in Israel, a good Jewish friend of mine began putting together a group of men to go over there and fight, but by the time he secured the airplane, weapons, and was ready to go, the war was over. In that war, the fastest thing on the earth, was an Arab tank with its backup lights on.:^)