"A portion of me was in Vietnam with my dad and a portion of me was with my mom in nursing school. I made my grand entrance in 72'."

I was 13, living with my parents at Fort Rucker Alabama. My dad had a Bear Polar, 66" and 44#, he bought in 1961 and I had a laminated longbow bought in Germany when I was eight. I bought a Wing Nighthawk in 1970 that pulled a big 25#'s and killed many a gopher in Montana while Dad was in Viet Nam the second time.

U.S. Army , Ft. Rucker, Alabama

Summer of '69 I was a 1st lieutenant in the Army at Fort Rucker, Alabama learning how to fly the Huey helicopter.  Graduated in class 69-34.

Going down to the crossroads...

I was doing a lot of fishing and shooting my bow getting ready for bow season. I was also contemplating marrying my first ex wife.

I was playing with hot wheels cars in the back yard. My oldest brother was in Vietnam.

I was 13 and watching my neighborhood  guys come back from Vietnam.

I was spending summers at my Grandpa's place near Grayling Michigan.

I had (still have it) a York green glass bow, and a pretty good collection of mismatched hardware store arrows. By day, I snuck around trying to shoot "gophers" (13 lined ground squirrels). For every gopher I killed I got a comic book....usually Sgt Rock.

Most Saturdays we would go into Grayling, and visit Bear Archery. My Grandpa always called it "Bear Mountain", I'm not sure if that was the real name. I would prowl around the pro shop, and eventually end up in the mini theater watching Bear movies.

Statute of limitations is probably up.....my Grandpa also taught me how to run a trot line for brook trout. I was a full grown adult before I realized we shouldn't do that. Regardless, we had trout for breakfast most mornings.

Those were great days!!!!