Red wine thought of the night.
Many moons ago when I was 30 pounds lighter and 27 years younger I was an Aircraft Electrician's Mate Second Class. My ship was the Midway, home ported out of Yokosuka, Japan. Think I have mentioned that before
There was a Willie Nelson song playing on the jukebox back then. I think it was even old at that time; called, "On the Road Again". My friends and I put a few different words to it. "On the road again" was replaced with "out to sea again" because we sure as hell spent the majority of those years on the ocean blue. The other part of the song replaced "making music with my friends" was sung "fixing airplanes with my friends" and "highways" was replaced with sealanes.
For a young man with all life ahead of them there was no better place to be. We made a difference. I still work around young people and it is amazing the vitality and spirit they have. I was once like that. Invincible.
For any of you who think I live to much in the past I wouldn't argue that.
Anyway, here's an old song that to me is about being with my friends, fixing airplanes and being young. Life was all in front back then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mckg0
My grandpa was an electrician aboard ship in WW2.
I heard that today is Willie's 80th birthday...