I'll be coming up on 42 years in a couple months. Seems like just yesterday.

Odd, but my closest personal friends were friends I made in the military. They're closer than my old school mates or any of my workmates over the years. It wasn't the best time to be in the military ... but they were actually the best days of my life in many ways. Weird how that works. I guess we learn to make a positive out of a negative in some instances.