I ordered a topographic map of the area I live in, in case I ever get the urge to wander around in the woods behind my house.  When it got here a couple of weeks ago, I remembered that I had a map case in one of the boxes of old Army stuff that I have in the attic closet, so I went to find it.  I found the map case OK, and I also found this picture of me at Ft. Benning in April of 1989.  The guys in the picture are (left to right) Mike Lofton, me, David Luders, and Albert Bagri.  Albert Bagri was an exchange officer from Benin.  (Maybe someday, one of them will google their names and find this). We’re all leaning because we were parked on a hill (you can kind of see the M113 APC in the upper right hand corner of the page) and we’d been up all night for a couple of days.  It was always nice when the sun came up, because you could change your socks and smoke a cigarette and (if you were lucky) heat up some water to drink a cup of coffee.

I haven’t been in touch with any of the guys pictured since then, the only reason I know their names is that I wrote them on the back of the picture. 

That was a long time ago. The picture is in pretty bad shape, I might be able to fix some of it with photoshop, but at least now it’s in the computer so that I’ll never lose the picture again.