re: RIP Schlitz beer

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Your models and stories are both great and haunting.

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Thanks. Growing up, I was raised by my maternal grandmother (both parents died in a car accident two weeks after my first birthday), so Old Sam was probably the closest thing to a father figure (along with my Uncle Emory) that I had. Emory was also a WWII vet, combat engineer, who shaped me into who I am today. They don’t make men like that any longer sadly, though I’ve done my best to pass down what I learned from them to my own son. I’m just grateful I had both of those men in my life when it counted.

My father did three tours in Vietnam in the infantry, I was on the first ship into Kuwait harbor. There is a Million Dollar Hole in Ft Lost in the woods I think you might know.

I graduated high school in 1975 and Schlitz beer was what most of us drank. Budweiser was considered crap beer. Rice beer. One of Our Group that drank it always caught hell, but he was a brainiac and he had memorized the Budweiser pledge on the front of the can so he would rattle that off whenever we got on his arse about his budweiser.

IKCSB

How do you handle a thanks for your service? I don't know it I should say "thank you" or "you are welcome"

Have quite a few pics of my dad when I was you get with a Schultz although he moved to miller light in his older years.