When you serve in the US Armed Forces, a sense of watch out for your buddy, and he'll watch out for you is instilled in you all throughout your service time. I can't think of any other place where you could make a better friend. Time and time again GI's make countless sacrifices for one another.
No one ever wanted to dare know the sacrifice that so few made for so many. Its been about 25 years now since it happened, and I think at last, its time to talk about it. There is no more Soviet Union today. But at the time the Iranians took the hostages, the US and the Soviet Union could have become easily embroiled in a world war if the US did to Iran what Iran deserved to have done to it.
She was as Irish as "Paddy's pig", yet her olive skin glowed with evidence that she had the blood of the Spanish Conquistador's. Her eyes sparkled as she sat by her window and I wondered who this vision of an Angel could be. I wanted to say something, but she was three stories up. When she stood to look at me my heart throbbed wildly with excitement. Her cut off shorts showcased a beautiful pair of legs. "How could I only be living two blocks away from her and never have noticed her before,?" I wondered to myself.