re: Was our last need linebacker just filled

After 2 semesters at LSU I entered the Marine Corps at 500 Canal Street in New Orleans as a private on 20 August 1948, made private first class , corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant, technical sergeant (in Korea ‘52-53), acting gunnery sergeant, gunnery sergeant, warrant officer (July 1964), chief warrant officer, second lieutenant, first lieutenant and Captain (‘67-68) at DMZ Vietnam.

Thanks, swampcat, but as a Marine spending over a year warring in Korea (1952-1953) and 13 months on the DMZ in Vietnam (1967-1968) in the thick of things, suffering 500 casualties a week, earning a V in a medal for combat valor, I can take the nastiness here. But this morning, after all these years of trying to get on TD, I’m not sure the wait has been worthwhile. Only so if some of these uncalled for, vile, juvenile language, questioning posts I see are representative of LSU grads, I’m prone tomorrow to remove the LSU Alumni sticker from my SUV. But thanks, I appreciate the good advice.

Daniel, don’t do that. I think that you deservedly received far more positive posts than negative. Obviously there are always those like whitemamba16 (16 must refer to his IQ) but if you will notice that in all of his multiple posts in this thread he did not receive one single upvote. Pretty telling right there. As they say, when you are digging yourself into a hole, quit digging! Keep posting as it is always good to hear from heroes! Lots of good people come from Eunice and spent many nights playing music at the Purple Peacock back in 68-72. Thank you for your service.

Oh, the Peacock Lounge, Second street, just off Laurel, right? Remember its opening. Placed many a bet in the back room. You must remember hearing of Joe Nagata, from Eunice, back in my day, ‘47, punter on the LSU football team? Spent lots of time with Joe in "G" barracks where footballers camped out then.

Are you related to the Savoys of the Savoy Music Center in Eunice?

You ever killed anybody?

And that's relevant to what, kid?

No, left Eunice in 1947 for LSU, LA in 1948 for USMC and rarely went back. If he's older than me, God bless him...I'm 92!

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Just had a chance to read Joe Nagata’s story.

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Mr. Savoy turned me on to him a few months back and I went down a rabbit hole reading up on Joe Nagata. Well worth the time to do so. There is not a lot of information out there about the pre-Billy Cannon days, but the little there was gave some insight to what he went thru and accomplished and it is an amazing story.