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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8218237, member: 100459&quot;]We must be close to the same age.&nbsp; I was drafted in May 1968 and took Basic Training at Fort Bragg.&nbsp; Lucky for me, my father was stationed at Fort Bragg at the same time as well as my brother in law.&nbsp; You should have seen the drill sergeants jump when they came to bring me something.&nbsp; My father was a LT Colonel at the time and my brother in law was a first louie.&nbsp; I had dated one of the drill sergeants daughters, but if you think they lightened up on me, think again.&nbsp; They razzed on me every day.&nbsp; I had KP 3 times.&nbsp; My father would pick up my uniforms and other things and my mother had them cleaned.</p><p>Reality raised its ugly head when I went to Fort Dix for AIT.&nbsp; I was scheduled for OCS at Fort Sill, but while on guard duty, I had an appendix attack while on guard duty and had to have emergency surgery.&nbsp; I got 30 days of convalescence leave an used that time to get married.&nbsp; I returned to Fort Dix and had to have a medical exam to see if I was healthy enough to return to duty.&nbsp; However, it seems the doctor that did my appendix surgery messed it up and I had to have another operation to fix the first operation and then got 30 more days of leave.</p><p>By that time I had been in the army for almost a year.&nbsp; My father came to see me and he told me that I would not have to go to Vietnam because he was headed that way and my brother was on a cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin.&nbsp; Due to the Sullivan Act, I was precluded from going.&nbsp; I signed up for jump school at Fort Benning and when that was over I was given the option to going to Fort Bragg.&nbsp; My family had moved by then.&nbsp; I was assigned to the 4th Brigade until the 3rd Brigade&#039;s colors came home and without moving, I was then in the 3rd Brigade.&nbsp; They found out I could type, so I was given special duty with JAG and became a court reporter.</p><p>I was poor as a church mouse, though, but was allowed to live off the base with my new wife.</p><p>Now, that was my excuse for not being able to buy gold.&nbsp; I finally bought my first gold coin 2009.&nbsp; My first gold coins were a 1904 $20 Liberty Head Double Eagle and an 1895 $10 Liberty Head Eagle which I had graded.&nbsp; The 1904 came back from NGC UNC Details and the 1895 came back a MS 61.&nbsp; The dealer offered to buy them back, but I kept them.</p><p>Now, that&#039;s my dog&#039;s story, and I am sticking to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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