Today is 2/10/2015
It was 48 years ago today that Dad dropped me off at 401 N Broad,
I reported for duty as a member of the US Army.
It was a Friday morning, 7AM. Dad told me to keep the Faith.
10 days earlier I was a student @ LaSalle U at b.ball practice with
Fran Dunphy
Anyway, when you go in the Military whether Reservist or a Regular your life experiences change forever. You may have had a job @ XYZ Corp when you were 20 & left when you were 23 and never had another thought about XYZ Corp
Military service is embedded in your brain...that's what they do.
So...I never saw Fran Dunphy again after 1967.
Until Maryann & I were sitting at a bar 20 some years later
and the bar tender delivered us drinks.
From a guy on the other side of the bar that was Fran Dunphy.
I think it's pretty cool that he remembered me & recognized me!
I was only on scholarship @ LaSalle for about a month when I had to go...
And that's my story
3 comments:
You have a very interesting story Pea. You should rent a house on the Maine coast and write a book, I'm gonna. Someday....
I have some ideas on capturing these stories. They are important to capture. We'll talk...
Pea, over the years in my bball travels I've been the company of Coach Dunph...recently in Dec., and he ALWAYS asks, "how is Gerry?'.....Not sure he knows my name but he's never forgotten you....once, years ago, I asked him did he remember if you 'could play'? (a frequent all expressed comment about a guy who had played....about as succinct a comment as most bballers can make)....he said "Gerry could play, he would've played with us, yes.." (note: that was the Cannon, Durrett, Williams, Wlodarcyk, etc. team). Jes tellin' ya.
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