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I remember having GI Joe fights with my brother.  We used to pretend that our action figures were waging war with each other.  They would sneak into the enemy's base (each bedroom being a base) and attempt to take out the enemy.  It was funny because it was kind of arbitrary how we would determine whether or not one of the GI Joes successfully shot the other GI Joe.  I think it was based on whether or not we were willing to give up one of our action figures.  If it was one of our cherished Joes we would say "no way, you missed" or "he dodged it".

We would sometimes get in fights because one of us would claim that we had a straight shot at the opposing Joe.  It was a good time, nonetheless.

I remember countless charming hours playing Turbografx. Bonk's Adventure, Keith's Courage, DJ Jazz Jeff, Splatterhouse and those pinball games, Air Zonk. Man, there still has not been a game system invented that left the same impression on me. The games were these tiny cartridges and the system was called "Turbo" because each controller had a turbo button. I never owned one. My brother received it as a Christmas gift. When we really started getting into comic books, he traded it to our friends John and Derek for some comic books. Now our comic books just sit in their cardboard boxes collecting no value but collecting plenty of dust.

I saw general Patton several times in passing in World War 2because I was in a special service (a recon service) under which he was thegeneral. One time I remember seeing himwas a nice spring day in Nurnberg Germany. We were waiting for orders to go forward andour batalion was there for cleanup. Itwas a week or two before the war ended.

It was at this time that I had a jeep, and having a jeep waslike being a taxi driver; you had to take everyone everywhere.

I came along this part of the road where it had been bombedout and there was only about 1 lane open for about 1/2 mile. I took my sweet old time. It was that nice spring day and I thought Iwould take it a little slower than we usually were paced.

It was then I heard an air horn (bleep bleep). They used to use air horns with the coloredtroops got assigned driving trucks and I thought it was one of them. But pretty soon I got to a wide part of theroad and what went by me was a

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I was out standing guard one night in Czech Republic and I was listening to the BBC and they came over with "The War had ended."� In that town of Pilson, the VIP's decided that they wanted to entertain the troops and they rounded up a real circus with lions and tigers and horses. I got on a detail with another GI with our jeep and we were supposed to go round up supplies for this circus.

We went to slaughterhouses for meat for the tigers and lions and also got into one warehouse that was all full of chocolates; even a breadhouse. We had authority to confiscate if they didn�t give up their supplies. The army would give them vouchers to later redeem what we used for the troops, but most probably never did anything with it.

Bob Hope came in there one time and put his show on. He was real good in concert and I sat down not to far from the stage and there must have been about 10000 GI's in that town square.

The last two or three days of the war I was

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