Re: Islam Explained in Layman's Terms

The Missouri had some heavy duty so your dad was probably very busy during his time there.  Sorry to hear of his death by cancer.

I spent the first four months out of harm's way in Korea in Masan not far from Pusan.  I started drinking heavily (a fifth of whiskey was 75 cents - wasn't yet 21 but that didn't seem to bother anyone).  I drank every day and every night and it scared me so much that I asked for a transfer north to get away from the alcohol and they honored my request.

We were programmed in boot camp to hate sailors.  It didn't take too well for me because I had a brother who served in the Navy in the South Pacific during WWII.  Also when I arrived in a front line company we had Navy corpsmen who faced the same incoming and sniper fire that we did - but they didn't have a weapon to defend themselves - per the Geneva Convention.  They wore the Marine Corps uniform and to me and most of the other guys they were gods.  To this day I have a high regard for those corpsmen and the Army medics too.  Most people don't realize that the Navy corpsmen are right along side the Marines in battle.

I too have cancer.  Beat prostate cancer several years ago and still have my prostate.  Had lung cancer, once in each lung at different times and am fully recovered from surgery.  I'm now engaged in a battle with multiple myeloma (bone marrow cancer) but I've been ingesting hemp oil - the kind with THC which required a physicians letter and my oncologist handed me one within five minutes after I asked him.  He encouraged me to use it and my first lab tests after using it for less than two weeks indicated that my cancer was stabilized so the doc changed my visits with him from once a month to once every two months.   There are all sorts of rave reviews about it on the Internet but I'm rather skeptical.  I can get this legally in my state - Washington, and have a good supply on hand.  I take it three times a day and don't get much of a high from it.  Wish I could get hemp oil with THC for everyone who has cancer but the restrictions in most other states don't allow it.