Don
Lash. This picture was taken on the fire
escape 2nd floor (or deck) landing of
HU-4 Barracks in 1964. Don Lash is posing with his black eye. He was proud of his black eye, sort of like a
trophy. He had never had a black eye
before.
The story
how he got his black eye: A lot of snow fell on NAS Lakehurst, NJ. We were
snowed in. We could not drive off the
base. But we could walk to the E.M.
Club.
The beer
flowed through the evening hours and people got drunker and drunker. A table of drunk Marines started self-body
dance with the beat of the loud music from the juke boxes.
And some of
us mocked them dancing solo. Although, I
think most of the Marines at the that table did not realized they were being
mocked, just self-dancing like they were.
But one
Marine did not see the humor in it. He
knew exactly what was going on. He
leaped across the floor from their table to ours and POW! He socked Don in the face.
We got the
hell out of there.
End of
story.
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