Many of us were apparantly enjoying our all expense
paid trip to scenic Southeast Asia, my fellow Ameriican. I was in Chu-Chi
for Tet and moved to Phu Bai, (wonderful Phu-Bai- the-Sea). I was Army
Field Artillery and spent the last 7 plus months in vaious fire bases north of
Hue. I odn't want to leave the wrong impression, I was assigned to
PCV Corps Artillery HQ, at Phu Bai, but the CG had me touring trying to
solve maintenence and supply problems, which were many. I managed to
"enjoy" a few "interesting" days.
My beautiful wife let me
start my railroad empire on a dining room wall when I cam home, which helped
with the stress and a big reason of why few related issues.
Pat Homan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 10:19
AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Ref. scene at Ord,
NE
That's better. Did you miss TET of 68 or were you
in the thick of things like I was. My parents didn't know where I was
for three weeks until I got a notice from the Red Cross..."You will write your
parents NOW and tell them that you are OK."
On 1/23/2014 11:02 PM,
John D. Mitchell, Jr. wrote:
That should be Feb.68
For me it was Feb. 60 until May 69,
John,
If that was 67/68 thanks for keeping Charlie off my butt. I was at Chu Lia
67/68. Running all up and down I corps keeping my Med Company Platoons in
order. Phu Bai, Danang, Quang Tri. Replaced the 1st Marine Hospital when
ever it moved.
Noel...Semper Fi Marine.
On
1/23/2014 5:04 PM, John D. Mitchell, Jr. wrote:
My first days work, after I got out of Marine Corps consisted
of unloading a fifty ton boxcar loaded with rock salt in one hundred pound
sacks. I had two college boys working with me. It was June in Southern
Illinois, so it was hot in the ends of that car. But it didn't
brother me too bad, as I was just back from Vietnam!
Folks - There were some dandy jobs on the railroad, I worked the
clerks
extra board in the late 1950's. Seeing the men
unloading a box car was
similar to working the freight house
foreman's job at Nebraska City. All
the big stores there
such as Montgomery Ward received store merchandise
by
boxcar. It was fun unloading furniture, tractor tires and boxes and
boxes of goods in August, couldn't get a breath of air back in
the car,
so you just sweat it out. At Holdrege, NE I worked
the night job Friday
and Saturday 2000 hrs to 0500 hrs. A
large creamery was across from the
depot, 4 or 5 of the
seven passenger trains that went through Holdrege
during
those hours carried mail, express and cans of cream. I well
remember loading nearly 400 cans of cream every night onto the
baggage
carts and lugging them west of the depot so the
creamery could pick them
up. Tons of sack mail and
newspapers for Holdrege proper and three Star
routes, which
went into the freight house and sorted out onto other
baggage carts, which by morning, especially the Saturday shift
with
Denver and Omaha newspapers, well filled the freight
house. It was fun
to grab a sack of Sears or Penny's
catalogs and throw them half way
across the freight house to
the proper cart. But, that was railroading
then, it was a
job with higher wages than anywhere else.
Richard Kistler
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