Longest Distance Memory

I recently saw your commercial on tv, it brought back fond memories, here is my story, might even make a good commercial or ad.

While serving in the marine corp in 1984, I was on a ship off the coast of Korea. We were there to play what they call war games, to test our strategies. We left the ship early one morning before the sun came up. We departed on smaller amphibius water craft, as we approached the beach it was raining. What a miserable day. After hitting the beach we jumped into large trucks, we drove for what seemed like hours into the moutains of korea. Cold and wet, the convoy came to a halt along the roadside. We had no idea where we were, but as young marines do, we did what our officer in charge told us to. Out of the trucks we jumped, back into the pouring rain. The only thing that we could see were MOUNTAINS on both sides of the road. The captain had passed the word that we would make camp on the other side of the mountain that stood to our north. We climbed that mountain for five (5) hours, which seemed to be straight up. Upon reaching the top and part way over the other side it seemed to flatten. This is where we would make our camp for the next 12 days (keep in mind we had everything in our backpack to live for those 12 days). No roads in, no roads out, for all we knew we were in the middle of nowhere. We boke up into our squads and started to set up our two man tents. About ten minutes into set-up out of the bushes walked an elderly lady (between 50 to 60 we guessed) balancing a large wash tub on her head with a make shift backpack made from a sheet. Linda, this lady had approximately 30 pepsi's in this tub, in the make shift backpack she had assorted boxes of snacks. She had three boxes of MOONPIES, if I remember right there were 10 or 12 in a box, I bought 2 of the three boxes for myself and my squad. When I tell you that they tasted like heaven, that would be an understatement. I gave my 5 marines and myself a break from set-up and we ate every last crumb, to this day I remember that day, but I still do not know to this day how she climbed that mountain with everything she had, but I was sure glad that she had those MOOONPIES. I've always loved MOONPIES even as a child( born 1960). The only thing I think about is why she didn't bring a milk cow with her, she could of loaded everything on and I could of had a glass of milk too. I' m 42 years old and still love eating MOONPIES with a glass of milk! My wife says that I'm nothing more than an oversized kid, because I always make sure that when she goes to the store she buys MOONPIES. I' ve even got my children hooked on them.

Thanks for reading my memories
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SGT Russell W. S.

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