Overheard in a ditch one day in Nam. Our Sargent was on the Prick 25 handset, but I was close enough to hear Lt. Gustafson’s voice on the other end on a VRC12. I faintly heard him as he was talking to Sargent Weinstein, (we didn’t discuss religions and politics). Sarg we just called him, I knew it was Lt. Irving Gustafson, my childhood buddy that Sarg was talking to for the first time.
My childhood buddy Irving was over in some cushy office in Saigon somewhere, a dude who was born in Sweden and raised in a Swedish family in Ham Lake, Minnesota. I knew him well, because his family farm was down the road a bit from our farm.
So he took a lot of things that we said normally, and sort of twisted them around a little, primarily because of speaking nothing but Swedish in the home, which made “English “ a second language for him, and the rest of us who spoke English like it’s supposed to be spoken. You should hear him sing “How deep is your love” at Karaoke.
He would be saying, “Oh, that’s a piece of pie”. And I’d say, “IT’S A FUCKING PIECE OF CAKE”.
Or he’d say, “Croakie Folky”. To which I would respond outa love, “NO!!!! It’s Okie Doakie you blathering idiot”.
I taught him a new way to say that last one, like I like to say it. I told him to say, Okie Doakie, Artichokie”
So, you can imagine how much fun they had with him at West Point. I digress. Back to the ditch we were in. “10 three over and snout”,….By this time, Sarg handed me the handset. For all the higher/ranked officers who were listening on the other end, “This is Private Saxe. No! It’s just 10-4.
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Peace & Abide, La paz y la morada, السلام والالتزام , שלום ושמירה, Paix et Demeure, Խաղաղությունը եւ մնալը, Мир и пребывание,, 平和と遵守, 和平與恪守, Aştî û Abad, صلح و عبید, Fred och Abide, Kapayapaan at Patuloy, Frieden und Bleiben, Mir i Ostanite, शांति और निवास, Hòa bình và ở lại, Мир и Абиде, שלום און בלייַבן, สันติภาพและการปฏิบัติ, Mir in bivanje,
Yadhum oore yaavarum kelir, “The World Is One Family”
Dr. T. C. Saxe, DD, RSISHE
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