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Message: [QUOTE="Sphinx, post: 5114818, member: 4623"] I served in the Army Quartermaster Corp in peacetime (1961-63). and was a draftee to boot, so I'm a little hesitant to consider myself a veteran. But I stand up at any affair honoring those who have served, and I would never have guessed , back then in Nuremberg, counting the days, devouring the UConn basketball clippings sent from home, how proud I would be sixty years later recalling that service. A lot of the guys I served with went on to Vietnam, including then-Captain Arthur Gregg, who later became the first black Lt. General in the U.S. Army, and after whom Fort Lee, VA was just last year renamed Fort Gregg-Adams. General Gregg was the classiest individual I ever met -- a soldier, a gentleman and a friend to every enlisted man. He died in August at age 96. [/QUOTE]