Donald Murphy:  

1964- To Much cutting out the Clementine St side door, for a smoke and lunch at the greasy spoon at Emerald & Clearfield, Have to blame Bill Ready, Bob Mcknight, or Wayne Bolden they forced me to go. Anyway, I would have to redo 11th Grade, No way, My father got me a good job 2 weeks after school closed, He took me to K&A to that Red Plywood Shack on the side walk near the Midway Movie with the great advertisement poster of a Marine in Dress Blues, and photo's of Hawaii Beaches, No mention of VietNam back then, after all we were only advising them anyway. My father said this will do you good, he was a former WWII Marine. He probably thought- If you try to cut out on this, the brig time will do you good too. Mar66-Mar67 I found out alot about RVN from DaNang to the DMZ, my tour guide was the 9th Marines, always looking for this guy called "Charlie" as Forrest Gump would say. Alot of times he would come to visit us "uninvited" the ultimate "Pop In" July 1, 1968 After 4 years I got out of the Corps, today I realize my Father was Right, the Corps was good for me. I went in, a know it all wanna be tough guy from Fishtown and came out a Go by t...Expand for more