In a message dated 4/9/02 10:50:07 AM, Ajhsys@aol.com writes:
<< In a message dated 4/9/02 9:59:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mgtrcars@galaxyinternet.net writes:
>
> The song talks about a fellow that purchases his "dream car" that was
> sitting in a garage for years, like many of us have done. In the glove box
> is a note stating that(and I paraphrase) "if you are reading this note then
> I was not able to come back home from serving my country but please take
> this dream of mine and carry it on as your own". And the song goes on
> jerking the tears, as it should, and explains how lucky this new owner
> feels
> to have his dream car all because of somebody else's sacrifice for his
> country.
> This made me realize how many of us are fortunate enough to be driving
> somebody else's dream made possible by someone else's sacrifices. And I
> mean this in a bigger sense than the material means. >>
When I went off to 'Nam in '67 I sold my MGA and gave away a lot of my stuff.
It was only in retrospect, looking back on that time, that those actions
gave me the willies. I guess the idea was that if I worried too much about
coming back, I probably wouldn't. And being 19 and as filled with
testosterone as the rest of my peers, I figured to live forever or die in a
blaze of glory.
As it was, I returned in 12 months and two days later bought the MGB-GT I was
to drive for a decade, a car I constructed in my mind during that year.
Funny thing, there I was a chief warrant officer trusted to lead combat
assaults, and I had to have my daddy sign for me 'cause I was only 20. Oh,
well.
Jay Donoghue
72B-GT
66 Mustang
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