Inaugural freeze

OCS buddy Chuck Waldron reminds me that forty years ago today we were on standby to guard Richard Nixon’s inaugural as platoon leaders in the Sixth Armored Cavalry Regiment. We sat in an armory nearby in case we were needed in those times of periodic nationwide rioting which had little, if anything, to do with Nixon. We weren’t needed. Chuck remembers all of that much better than I do because he and his platoon had to stand in the cold while mine enjoyed the warm armory. He was reminded, he said, because he spent today out in the cold as part of an American Legion honor guard for the funeral of a Korean War veteran.