United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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31 August 1%7 Dear Mom and Dad, It was great to see you again. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Thanks espe- cially for not mentioning Kathy. Things got pretty hectic around here after you left. I guess they didn ' t want us to have any time to start thinking about the week- end. We had this thing called a snowflake drill. First, we had to bring around all of the clothes that we owned (except both sets of sweat gear, which we were wearing) and then we had to bring all of our locker clips around too. They did this for all three pla- toons in the company which Is over a hun- dred guys. They made us empty all of the stuff in this big humongous five man room over on the other side of the wing, and then they mixed it all up. After that, all of us crowded in, all over the place, and they closed the doors and windows and turned on the hot water in the shower and sink. Then we started doing exercises. They weren ' t very tight about it, and it got to be pretty hilarious when they yelled for every- body to start doing pushups. Have you ever tried to do pushups on someone else ' s back, with two more guys on yours and everybody laughing? To put it bluntly, it was a riot. After it was over we had to sort it all out and put it away before taps. We didn ' t make it. In fact, we were up half the night getting it done. Oh well! We ' ve got town liberty over the Labor Day weekend, and we ' re getting set to move into our Academic year rooms. I ' m still rooming with John, but we ' ve got Bill Smithson in with us. We ' re looking forward to the return of the Brigade with mixed emotions. The going ' s supposed to get pret- ty rough again but I think it ' ll be O.K. Write soon. Terry m

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' lined h e ' re i we wherever ' ifsi one who ' 5 ' tiatldon ' t ■o ' tiersatfor- ingyoupar- inything from inviting her, I •iw you come ' f Wand all I It ' s all pretty ' fet my Squad ,yes, be as... well, [specially Mr. you on Sunday kids enjoying 13 August 1967 Dear Kath, I ' m sorry that you can ' t come down for parents weekend. I understand that Danny looked great in his uniform when he came home from Basic training, but don ' t you think that this is just a bit hasty? I mean, he didn ' t even graduate from High School. You didn ' t have to send back my ring, I can ' t have it here anyway. Please reconsider; my invitation for Dec. still stands. Hope to hear from you soon, Terry

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' ■ y They §01 to be ' Of every, •vouever Ise ' sback 3 riot, ill out and lake it. i ie Labor i§ set to Mi I ' m e got Bill g forward iih mixed )geipret- 0,K. 20 November 1967 Hi Folks, I ' m sorry I haven ' t written but it ' s been kinda rugged and hectic. School ' s going okay. I ' ve got a 2.66 at midterms. Thanks for all the let- ters. And the chow packages. The Ex-lax chocolate chip cookies worked fine. So did my squad lead- er later! How about that football team! Have you been reading in the paper? Penn State, Syracuse, Michi- gan, etc. I could ' ve cried after the Vanderbilt game. That field goal at- tempt was good! Oh well. This place is really getting up now for Army. It ' s really amazing. I ' ve never seen spirit like this. Pret- ty soon we ' re going to go over the wall! There ' s all kinds of projects and posters going up already. It ' ll be great if we win. When we win! No, so far I don ' t have a date. One of the 2 c tried to set me up with his sister but I politely de- clined. I think I ' ll just go out with some of the guys and maybe stop in at the Brigade Mixer. See you on the tube Terry jJL T I— i 9