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[redneck joe]

My 84 year old father can be fun.

A Fabulous Fable

In 1968 I had recently returned from Vietnam and was waiting for a high-level security clearance to be granted - those things take months a...

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[briangcc]

Love it!

My dad tells tale of one of his adventures riding in a troop transport during Vietnam and a smoke grenade...

Tale goes...

They were riding in a troop transport through rice paddies and someone had the idea to start pulling the pin from the smoke grenade and reinserting it. Well as fate would have it they hit a bump and the pin went flying out of the transport. So they now had a live smoke grenade and no pin.

My dad, thinking quickly, sees one of the flooded fields and says to himself "Smoke won't go up through the water". Yep, he tossed it into the flooded field. It of course went off and there was all kinds of smoke all over the place...which just happened to cause a stampede of cows. Farmer was shouting something in Vietnamese to him as they passed. I'm sure it was something along the lines of him being #1