gallantwarrior
Gold Member
Times were different. Ordinary people had not been places. The military gave many of them the opportunity to go places they would never have gone otherwise.
How ya gonna keep em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?
I'll 'fess up... I joined the Army way back when because I had read James Michener's "The Drifters" in my junior year in high school. I desperately wanted to go to those places so I signed up for an assignment in Europe. I did get to Torremolinos, but never made Mozambique or Marrakech. I did get to see a lot of Europe, though.