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Summary - June 1967

To be written


June - Exact Date Unknown

CPT James Cooper MD and CPT Cohen MD, general surgeons, depart the 24th Evac. (Source: Ken Bowen)


June - Exact Date Unknown
Ken Bowen remembers baking pizza in the Lab oven!

The picture  was taken in the wee hours of the morning.  Dr. Veatch and I are probably more than a little fuzzy headed. I'm on the far left (with the can of Carling's Black Label close at hand). Of course that's Major Veatch trying to steady the organ or vice versa.   Everett Hyman is facing the camera and Dr. Kling (only half showing) is in the lotus pose on the far right bench. Cherry and Dr. Kling were on duty so they're sober.  We're all waiting for the pizza to cook. Don't know who took the picture.

Looking at the scene brought another recollection. See the white boxes under the benches? They are styrofoam containers for shipping blood. We had dozens of them and gave them out to most all the hootches. They found another use with ice to chill beer and soda. On movie nights at our outdoor theater (projector in a conex box showing the movie on sheets tacked to plywood) we'd haul our folding chairs with the blood box "coolers" to the show. During monsoon season the movies would go on but we'd cover up with ponchos and pull our feet up out of the water. Sometimes the styrofoam box would float away and we'd find it the next day. (Source: Ken Bowen)

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Courtesy Ken Bowen


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