by waaytoomuchintothis » Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:18 pm
Thanks so much folks. I waited until this afternoon so I could see a bunch of them at once. It worked! This is the best way to do it. Wait all day so you can do this. This is great.
Oh, Dennis, it was Fort Benning, Georgia. I was in the old wooden Camp Infirmary by this time of day, having been moved with my mother from the sergeant's ward room of a barracks they stopped in on the way to the infirmary. I was a ten month baby, and when it was finally time, I arrived after only 30 minutes of labor, and it took the driver 20 minutes to get to our quarters and get us. There were 60 witnesses to my birth. My mother says that after carrying me 10 months she no longer cared she just wanted the baby to be born already. Until I had to have it amended to apply to the Naval Academy, I had a very long birth certificate, with an attached page that had all the soldier's names. I came as close as anyone ever has to being born on an Army blanket. A few minutes ago, my mother was sitting on my couch retelling the story. A couple of years after I was born, they built a much larger building and this time, called it a hospital. I think there have been two or three hospitals at Benning since then. At one time, medics carried serious stuff to Colombus hospitals, off-base.