I was at Barbers Point NAS, and got orders to go to Midway.  Had no idea where that was.  Anyhow, arrived there during a rainstorm, and the trees from the air sort of resembled cedar trees as we landed.  Didn't realize at the time I would be stationed there for around 16 months.  I had turned 20 years old in Sept.  This was approx. 47 years ago.  Near the time I was scheduled to leave to be discharged, the Cuban missle crisis occured, and some duty tours were extented for 6 months.  I did not fall in that group and departed Midway in 1962.  After being discharged at T.I., my friend John Digges and I bought a 54 Ford in San Francisco and made it back to the farm in KY.  Surprised my parents,and my brother and uncle were hoeing the weeds out of the tobacco crop.  My brother got out of hoeing tobacco for a few days, and then I took John back home to Ohio, bought his share of the car, gave it to my dad, and he traded it and his car in on a better car.  Time flys by, and as Mrs. Johnson used to say, "That's the way it goes".