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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Very interesting ..........bobford


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--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Additional Rice Information
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 2:26 PM
> On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:05 PM, bob ford wrote:
> 
> > I assume you were there in the late 50's to
> early/mid sixties, did  
> > you visit Mt. Fuji?.  That seems to be my memory of
> what relatives  
> > did in japan (that they could talk about) ....bobford
> 
> I was at Camp Zama, Japan from April 1955 to September
> 1957. Each  
> weekday morning we fell into reveille formation in the
> street in front  
> of the barracks. Over one's right shoulder was a
> lovely, unobstructed  
> view of Mount Fuji. I always planned to climb. I never did.
> Yet  
> another example of the mistake of thinking there is always
> plenty of  
> time.
> 
> Memories? Many. I like the Japanese people very much. Very
> respectful.  
> My most memorable trip was to Osaka, Nara, Kamakura. Never
> will forget  
> climbing up inside the Great Bhudda and looking out one of
> the eyes.  
> The Kinkakugi--Golden Pavilion. A warlord's sleeping
> house with  
> surrounding "nightingale floor," on which no one
> could walk without  
> causing the floor boards to chirp, a design to wake the
> warlord's  
> bodyguard who sat at his bedroom door, his sword at the
> ready.
> 
> Good memories.