Too Fun To Read: ...Harpo's... blog

Now I'm totally curious how the Miss found me. GREAT fun to read -- loved the post about men. Also just read re June Pointer dying -- DANG. She was the youngest, too! And ~yes~ I loved their music -- I'm way older than ANY of you -- especially "I'm So Excited" -- I remember living in D.C., blasting that out of the little crappy speakers in my Ford Escort, just thinking I was THE thing..........

...Harpo... is in Norfolk -- where I was born. My Dad was in the Army, working down there, but when I was supposed to be born was supposed to be a hurricane, so they told my dad to get my mom into the Navy base. Good thing too, because if they hadn't gone (Mom, of course, didn't want to go, she was "too busy boarding up the windows" -- that's my mom...) -- if they hadn't gone, I would have been born in a halftrack!

...Harpo.... is also a Marine. You go grrl. I was at Quantico when I blew out my knees -- that was Desert "Shield" (before it was Desert "Storm"). Was leading my fire team in a live fire drill, crawling through this concrete conduit for a good long way, tried to get up and...um, nope. My kneecaps had swollen up so good, they had "fused" to my bone, and then scored the inside of the kneecap. Youch. I remember my lieutenant just LIGHTING into me, about how "in a real combat situation" I would be leaving my team to die, "Get UP, Lead your TEAM." I got up...I led my team....I came back over, saluted, asked to be excused to see the medic "Ma'am Yes Ma'am"...and off I went to Bethesda....whew, that was a long time ago.

Mem'ries!