Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was class of '68, and most of the guys who were in the hoodlum category and didn't have a 2S deferment got drafted and went to Viet Nam. My roommate in college for two years just died last year of cirrhosis. He didn't drink at all when he lived with me, but picked up a taste for Scotch (no, not single-malt but the half-gallon cheap stuff) and was pretty much drunk from 1980 to 2003. No job. He lived on rental property left to him by his parents who both died in 1980 of lung cancer. I guess one good reason for having a steady job is that you can't be drunk 16 hours a day. I've started going to the gym to treadmill. Trying to live as long an productively as Ted. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc James Small Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 6:39 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: [Leica] transporting film At 06:41 PM 7/16/04 -0500, Jeffery Smith wrote: >Ah, a baby boomer like many of us. For the first time, folks in my high >school graduating class are dying of diseases of the elderly (heart >attacks, cancer). First it was Viet Nam and car accidents (10 year >reunion), the AIDS (20 year reunion), and now heart attacks and >cirrhosis (3 year reunion). I'm afraid to go to my 40 year reunion. >Fortunately, it's still 4 years away. > Jeffrey As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am 54. None of my first High School class served in Viet-Nam but a couple of acquaintances were kill along the way in traffic accidents (one of these being a fitting end to an epic jerk), accidents on arch?ological expeditons, and the like. But of my college buddies (I was class of '72 at Washington and Lee University), the four closest to me were dead by the time of my twentieth reunion. It is a very sobering realization to recognize that those we now closely now have cross the interface between life and death. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information