Mr. Doorgunner...
Never had the pleasure of sharing the forum with you. There was some concern about your abrupt departure and your well being. Many here missed you.
At 277 pages... I'll probably skim through your build thread to familiarize myself with what you got going on and get an understanding of who you are. But a friend of these guys is always a friend of mine.
I'm glad to see you found your way back.
Thanks Uncle Gump...I was in sad shape when I bailed...then it got worse. Do yourself a big favor and focus mainly on the photos that I'm ytring to restore since photobucket deleted all my pics over the years. As I mentioned, I'm out of sequence posting the pics because I lost a couple hundred because of fried computers and corrupted files
Clkiff's Notes below:
As for understanding me...I have combat-related Amensia, PTSD, side=effects from Agent Orange exposure, combat injuries I never reported because I didn't want to end up in a dilapidated V.A. hospital surrounded by Shrinks for the rest of my life.
Within the last year a flashback reminded me why my spine is shot/paralyzed/ twice in a wheelchair/two spine surgeries...all because an NVA enemy soldier tried to put a bayonet thru my back.
It's really a strange thing to be nearly brought to your knees while casually walking through the living room in 2021..
then feeling a unbearable pain...
and turning around to see the enemy soldier pulling the AK/bayonet back from me.
Also............
It's tough being afraid to hold your own newborn children after returning from Nam because the only newborns you previously held were those dead ones you recovered after V.C/NVA soldiers loved to slaughter them while the moms were watching.
THEN....my own son was slaughtered by an Illegal Animal who NEVER should have been in America because Politicians refused to ENFORCE OUR OWN NATION'S BORDER LAWS !
Sorry....Rant over.