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Originally posted by sageofages
Being a military brat, whose father had TWO tours of duty in a war zone (Vietnam) and one isolated tour in Turkey, I guess this story hit a nerve with me. I can relate to missing your parent and needing some extra understanding when tensions run high. I WISH there had been cell phones all those years ago. I can remember getting a "reel to reel" tape in the mail (sporadically) to "hear" my daddy's voice when I was young. Only letters when I was older and Dad was in Turkey.
Apparently, I was not the only person NOT in the school district who felt the same  from her response to me.
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Somewhere in my parents home are the reel-to-reels my dad sent home from Vietnam as well. Great to listen to...especially the background noise - people speaking Vietnamese, etc....aircraft taking off and landing (he was a USAF pilot).
Nice to listen to every now and then, but what a technology throwback. If the tape player breaks before we get them transferred to CD - we're probably screwed.