at college....ucla......i963

this high school buddy who had joined the navy comes visit and he says

"the funniest thing happened.....i'm stationed in viet nam..and......."

"viet nam" i says....where the heck is viet nam?"

he looks at me as if i'm stupid and says...."south east asia!
......anyway, i'm on duty...at the radar .....all of a sudden , sirens goin offf!!!!

'we're under attack!"

well, we all just starin at the radar....not a thing...not a friggin thing!!!!!!!

weird!"

he tells me the name of his boat was the TURNER JOY and this took place in the BAY OF TONKIN

a few months later.......congress passes the gulf of Tonkin  resolution and the WAR IN VIETNAM commences.

i, of course......was "against the war!!!!!

funny what a little FACT can do, isn't it?