PV1 De'on Austin
Ft. Gordon, GA.
Summer of '88
It was at Ft. Gordon, Georgia I heard the best advice I've ever heard. One of our Drill Sergeants said to us once: "I don't know what to tell you, Private. Go hug a tree."
Somehow, the thought of that tree hugging business just seemed to make everything all right.
Many times in my life, I've thought of that ... go hug a tree.
That's all you can do.
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Look at this photo and then look at the photo of Aaron at the top. The same expression is coming out of Aaron's eyes and that third of his face.
I was absolutely shocked when I got this out after so many years. Actually, this and a few of the other photos come out of the photo album Lisa made for Aaron, and after so many years, it is stuck behind the plastic.
But when I saw Aaron's face in mine, it shocked me. I've never thought he resembled me except for his eyebrows. Of course,"What happened to my eyebrows?" I asked Greg.
He said, "They turned gray."
My eyebrows are not gray. And Greg is color blind besides. I always thought my eyes were one of my best physical characteristics, and after several months of us being in love, I learn that Greg thought my eyes were brown. They're green!
But anyway, I have maybe 2 gray eyebrows. But even though they're not gone; they are gone? What happens to eyebrows? I haven't seen little eyebrow hairs anywhere.
But after Greg said that, he said he definitely saw Gary in me. Of course, I've always thought that.
It's funny, I have always thought that Aaron resembled you the most. There is a picture of him that you have posted a few times here on the blog, a close up that looks like he is on some kind of bus, where I think he looks exactly like Gary. Aaron inherited those thick eyebrows that you and Gary both had ( Gary's have thinned considerably, also. I don't know why that has happened to you both, I guess age, but I think I know where those eyebrow hairs have gone. As I age, mine keep getting thicker! I think I may be accumilating them!)
You are crazy!:) lol. And I like how you phrased that it may be age!
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