ARMY ADVENTURES - Fort Ord #1

A million years ago, when I was a teenager, I injured my knee playing a pickup game of football. The injury, I was told, was to the cartiledge of the right knee. Now that injury played quite a role while I was in the service. No, not the Spanish-American War!

I was drafted into the army on March 2, 1951, and that was during the Korean conflict. Couldn’t be called “war” because war had not been declared.

I was assigned to a six weeks’ basic training cycle, and just about half way through, we were on a drill where we were prone on the ground, had to jump up, leap over a fairly wide ditch, and hit the dirt on the other side. Well, I hit, all right. Landed on my right leg, the cartiledge popped, and down I went. As was usual when my knee went out, it swelled up like a grapefruit, and I could scarcely walk. I knew it would take about a week for the swelling to go down, so I was hauled off to the base hospital.

I was furious! I figured I was going to have to start basic training all over again, and that did not appeal to me at all!

The army doctors took me into an examination room to see what they could figure out. I kept saying it was a cartiledge injury, but they had to prove it to themselves. “Do you want us to operate on that”, I was asked. “No, thank you,” I replied grumpily. So they sent me back to the ward where I continued to simmer.

A day or two later, with yours truly still sending smoke out of my ears, the ward doors opened, and a couple of GI’s pushed in a piano. “Oh, no,” I groaned to myself, “now some idiot is going to try to (ugh) entertain us with lousy piano banging”. And in came some fellow who sat down at the piano, and behind him came ... I am not making this up ... Danny Kaye! He had performed the night before at the Soldier’s Club, and now was making the rounds at the hospital to try to cheer up us poor guys.

He went around to every bed, and said something to each GI. I have no recollection what he said to me, but I was most astonished. Then he went over by the piano, did a couple of numbers, and then left for the next ward.

Well, the effect on me was transforming! About a week or 10 days after the swelling went down, I was assigned to a new basic company, and I started all over again. But that’s not the end of the saga of my bum knee. More another time.


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Dear Tech Support:

Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed
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Thanks, A Troubled User.

Reply:
Dear Troubled User:

This is a very common complaint.

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Best of luck,
Tech Support