: Sometime in '67 I got put on a detail to take
: some laborers outside the fence to dig some
: sod for placement somewhere. I laid out what
: I wanted cut and then relaxed while they
: spent the morning cutting and loading sod
: into wheelbarrows. When they had finished,
: the letters F T A stood out in that red
: Pleiku soil outside the fence toward the end
: of a runway. As punishment, I had to paint
: the concrete flagpole base and missed the
: Bob Hope Show. I'm wondering if anyone
: remembers seeing the F T A?

Anybody who knows me, Eric, would agree that it was a damned good thing you were gone before Shakey and I arrived. I am what some folks would describe as a "catalyst" and Shakey is simply trouble. The three of us would be rotting in Leavenworth to this day. And the world would probably have been a safer place for the last 35 years.

Kilpatrick