Attack of the Bearcats...

 I spent the weekend at Michindoh, a camp/conference center in Hillsdale Mi. I've been going there  many years for a singles retreat, originally called Solocon now known as Single Common Ground.  

As always it was a great weekend with little sleep, seeing lots of old friends and meeting some new.  One of the activities Friday night after services was bowling downtown.  It was about 10:30 PM I left the camp a few minutes behind everyone else and switched to the CD player in the car, I had a disc I burned "4-27-8 Road Trip" the first song playing was "Danger Zone"  and before it finished I'd caught up to the others.  As I cruised through town  "Dreams" by Van Halen began playing so I rolled down the windows and maxed the volume.  Then it happened.  My mind started running. 

While in the Air Force I spent 5 years at Ft. Campbell, KY, home of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, and in it's own little way it was a slice of heaven.  I'd always loved helicopters and there were many of them at Ft. Campbell, the barracks I initially lived in were maybe a half mile from the air field and because the military never shuts down I could usually go to sleep listening to the  "chuka-chuka-chuka" sound of helicopters.  

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