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After we stopped doing the DARE program we repurposed my stupid old DARE van to senior citizen duty. They loved it and
used it for several years.
Whenever a better old vehicle was available, the volunteers got upgraded. So they had a variety of rides over the years.
A lot of the volunteers had military experience, and more than a few had been in combat in the Second World War and some
had participated in the later wars in Korea and Vietnam. Some of them told me what that had been like.
Maury Johnson had been a tail gunner on heavy bombers that flew over Germany in large formations, dropping bombs on
military targets. George Farnsworth was in the army and got assigned to a tank division in Alaska but never saw combat. He said
under certain icy conditions the tanks would disconcertedly slide downhill on the mountains a lot.
Ted Babinski spent the war working with Ronald Reagan making training films.
