2008.05.31
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Show some respect on Memorial Day; show up
By Robert Craig
Craig, USMC Ret. Col., served in Vietnam as a Company grade officer. He lives in Roanoke.
Despite frequent references to my extended misspent youth, I don't often think of myself as old. I think of old as a state of mind. I know people in their 20s who are "old." They are very boring.
However, every so often something happens that reminds me I am in far reaches of the second standard deviation from the mean of the average age. At such times I don't feel old, I feel like a curmudgeon.
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