LIGHT-EM UP
LIGHT-em UP! 9/29/2009 7:54:02 AM Light-em up if you got ‘em. That’s what my drill sergeant used to order us when we took a break from basic training. So what’s a non-smoker like me to do? I watched my fellow comrades getting their “fix.” This was in Sept. 1966 @ Lackland AFB, TX Let’s scroll back in time to 1959. I was a freshman at Bruce High School, Bruce SD. My freshman friends and I would like to take our recess breaks behind the school OUTSIDE and wanted me to light up with them. It was KEWL to smoke, remember? But I knew that smoking was NOT a healthy thing to pursue, in spite of my so-called “friends” insistence. So I choose not to smoke, but I was curious as to why I should smoke. After all, my peers were insisting that I smoke, as it’s fun you know. So .. on a Sunday afternoon when my parents were at church and our farm house was vacated, I decided to experiment. I purchased a pack of unfiltered Camels. Remember, I was only 14 years old and Bud & Micks CafĂ© in Bruce...