After reading Helen's comment about how could I possibly do a "hat" post this Theme Thursday to top the one about the Hat's worn during the Pakistan/India Border Closing ceremonies, I knew that I could not. So I did the only thing possible, I am posting two pictures of me in the Army. These were taken before some of you were even born and when a lot of you were just little wee ones, so just know there was a war going on, "flower power" was in, and so someone took some pictures of me with some Army flower power.
So do you see why I was offered to be the fifth wife!!!
I think the one thing I hated doing while I was in the Army, was wearing a "hat". It just seemed so confining and maybe it had to do with my claustrophobia or not, but I hated wearing the hats. I still have this hat, minus the flower. I doubt it would fit on my head anymore.
This was right after I got my first pair of reading glasses. Don't you just love me trying to look tough with a flower.For more Theme Thursdays, go visit here.
Thanks for sharing the memory...maybe if all the armys wore flowers in their hats, we could end all the wars. :)
ReplyDeletewonderful pics mrsu...hope you are having a wonderful day!
ReplyDeleteGROOVY!!!!!
ReplyDeletewere you a pot smokin' hippy? Go flower power!
ReplyDeleteLoved the photos, Sherry. The one with you peeking through to flowers is cool. In the other one you look so cute and about 12 years old. Loved this!
ReplyDeleteCannon-cocker!
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You know, in high school, we used to say "tuff" if something was really cool. I'd say your tough look was so tuff!
ReplyDeleteWonderfully evocative photos, brimming with memories and meaning.
ReplyDeleteHaha Sherry you looked like such a baby! How old were you then? Gorgeous photos and frankly, I love a peaked cap!
ReplyDeleteDoffing my hat to yours, right now!
ReplyDeleteThose are saWeeT pics! You do manage to strike just the right balance between ruff/tuff and full of flowers-and-stuff.
Perfect.
how sweet you look being tough! wonderful shot--thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI love your hat - I like wearing ball caps now that my hair is long enough to pull it through the little opening in the back of the cap (ponytail) - but I find my head gets hot. Honestly - this middle age stuff is getting on my last nerve. Cheers and hugs!
ReplyDeleteExcellent! You look good in it.
ReplyDeleteFlowers on army hats?...I definitely (sorta ;-) remember those days.
By the way, I just enlarged the bottom pic...what's that red thing sitting on a four-legged stand, behind you on your left there? This has my curiosity piqued.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was a piece of unexploded artillery, since we were where the artillery things happened.
ReplyDeleteOkay, just kidding about it being a piece of artillery, although it had to do with artillery. I was in an field artillery support group that sent up the weather balloons to report the weather within all levels that the artillery would pass on through. Lots of people do not even know that the weather affects where the bombs will land. It was our job to give them the information so that they could adjust for where to shoot the artillery. You know kinda like the rifleman who licks his finger and checks out the wind before he fires his rifle.
Anyway that would have been one of the pieces of the equipment that we sent up to read the weather before we had attached one of the really large weather balloons. If you can see the truck sitting in amongst the trees, that would be where all the equipment would be that read the information we received from the piece that went up into the air.
Sometimes people would find the pieces after it came down and then return them. I think most people kept them if they found them.
As to my age for those who want to know, I was about 20 years old. I actually had never smoked pot but we all liked to think we were some kind of a hippy back then. I joined the Army because the Vietnam war was going on and being as I thought I was a women's libber at that time, I did not think it was fair to ask men to join and do their time if I was not willing to join and do my time. So I joined and did my time and gave up years later on being a total women's libber. Now I just say I am a superior libber. Okay, just kidding, well kinda sorta. Maybe I better stop while I am ahead. Although I was truly for burning the bra at that time, and now I will burn you if you try to take mine away. Gee how times change.
Go read my Mrsupole's Crap and see how I now use Duct Tape, it is under the Simple Home Rememdies post. Yes, times do change. But I had a lot of fun while in the army and just wish that wars never happened. Wars suck. I know from listening to so many men who had been in one. And still to this day I cannot watch a movie about the Vietnam war. It is just too hard knowing what I know.
God bless.
Sherry, I simply looove your hat photos! So cute!! :D
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I like your look of toughness in the Army cap with a flower.
ReplyDeleteThank you for thinking about me. Our minds must run on the same path. Because yesterday I was thinking how all my blog buddies must wonder where I am. And you came to my mind as one who would probably get in touch.
I did go to Egypt for two week in November. Hoped down to Texas for a holiday cocktail party one of my daughters gave just before Christmas. Than back to Connecticut to be with another daughter and her family for the holidays. I am currently in Texas to see a new granddaughter born on January 4th to my son.
Needless to say life has been a little hectic to get in much blogging. I hope to get back to it real soon. I want to write about the trip to Egypt.
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