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Purple Poop

Purple Poop

  So I go to the Food Pantry a couple of weeks ago. That was great. They gave me a shopping cart full of food. One of the items was a large bag of dehydrated Blue Berries. “What am I going to do with all these  dried-up Blue Berries,” I asked myself. After a couple of days went by, I went on the internet to see what I could do with this huge bag of Blue Berries. They say that if you soak them in hot water for 20 minutes they will re-hydrate, so that's what I did. After 20 minutes I put them in the refrigerator. The next morning I fixed a bowl of Cheerios. Instead of sprinkling it with sugar, I put a whole bunch of Blue Berries on top. Although the Blue Berries never plumped up like they were when they were fresh, they still tasted good, so for the next 3 days I had my cheerios with loads of Blue Berries on top. It works great to keep you regular but when I looked I saw that my stool had turned a different color I Had Purple Poop. I got right on the internet and looked to see if something was wrong with me. They said it was normal. You eat Blue Berries and you get Purple Poop. Whew!! I was glad to hear that. I still have ¾ of a bag of that stuff and I intend to use them on my Cheerios. I hope they give me dried up Straw Berries the next time.

  William Kaufman

First Hand Account of the Gulf of Tonkin Combat Mission Aug 5th 1964

This is a firsthand account of Commander Nottingham’s first combat mission in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam on Aug 5^th 1964 and the first combat mission of the Vietnam War. 

 I took this photo of a couple of my friends that I worked with and helped hook up Commander Nottingham’s aircraft to the catapult and launched him off the deck of the USS Constellation CVA64 in his A4 Skyhawk. 

  Lieutenant (Junior grade) Alvarez in his A4 Skyhawk was the first pilot I hooked up to Catapult #1 before we launched him off the carrier. Little did we know that he would be the first pilot to be shot down in the Vietnam War. He lived but spent eight years and seven months of brutal captivity by the North Vietnamese at the Hỏa Lò Prison known as the "Hanoi Hilton. The Captain of the USS Constellation came on the speaker later on and told all of us what had happened.

From  the: “All Hands” navy magazine

First Combat Mission An Eyewitness Report