Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Not particularly happy...

This picture of myself was taken against my will early November 1967. I was just enlisted in the French Air Force for a mandatory 16 month and obviously wasn't looking forward to being held against my will for so long.

Did I learn anything good during that incarceration of sorts? Perhaps a few skills like firing a gun and an automatic weapon during the first month of basic training, but after that I was just doing menial work like filling up fighter jets with jet-fuel and cleaning up parts and the like.

Yes, I learned something, but that was achieved on my own volition; it was English. I “killed” all that idle time by re-learning English following an evidently unsuccessful eight-year attempt at learning it in school!

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