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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMFM is the ONLY U.S. citizen with an injunction that he stay 50 miles away from Olympic events.
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TexasTowelie
(111,312 posts)Did you shave the rest of your chest after the Olympics?
EvolveOrConvolve
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MiddleFingerMom
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I didn't think of that!!!
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I must be slipping.
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nolabear
(41,915 posts)MFM spent some time as a B girl in the war.
MiddleFingerMom
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Thanks Father Mulcahy!!!
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The only time I availed myself of the USO in the Army (they're not so much a factor anymore)
was when I had a layover at Chicago O'Hare. I think I was JUST-turned 18 and frazzled and
tired and broke and overwhelmed by the hustle-n-bustle of that airport (I'm from a relatively
small Michigan town).
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They had what turned out (for me) to be an oasis of calm, open to the ceiling but surrounded
by 8-ft thin walls. I had awhile before my flight and it definitely helped my state-of-mind
immensely.
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No donuts and, perhaps more disappointingly, no Donut Dollies -- although I think they were
Red Cross and not USO.
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nolabear
(41,915 posts)Good story.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)They were the women who volunteered in the RC's SRAO ("Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas" branch.
A separate group, the Hospital Service Branch, provided services to patients in military hospitals. When I was in the ICU in Japan, a Red cross woman wrote a letter home to my mom for me to let her know I was okay. When I arrived back in the States, the Red Cross was there to give all of us a free phone call home.
Good people, doing good work.
Fortunately, I didn't run into MFM in his B-girl days.