Ever have "THAT REAL SURPRISE?"

 

 

 A picture from the Past.

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For Today:

I have no idea what you think of people’s hair. I personally lived thru many ‘men’s fads’ of hair. The Military one, the Flat top and the duck’s tail, as the duck’s tail faded out it was combined with the flat top.  After retiring from the military I even let my hair go into the long hair style  for a short time.  The one thing I remember in the USN concerning hair was the hair of my friend Ron. He was a militant black guy. Once the USN allowed it, he grew an Afro.  We could talk race and people without anger or raising the hair on your neck, just talk. Once he looked at me and said, “Jack,  like all white guys, you think my hair feels like steel wool, don’t you?”

“Yeah, to be honest I have thought that!”

Pointing to his afro, “Here, feel my hair, it is soft as cotton, not that I am gonna pick any cotton mind you.”

 

Of course, in an office environment, I felt sorta weird and he could tell I was reluctant. “Go ahead, dude, you need an education!”,

Yep, I became educated that day,

Ron’s hair was soft as cotton and felt fragile, were my first feelings.

That was in GITMO Bay, I never saw Ron again, I hope he had a great life. We all can tell mixed race individuals at times.  Then I met Wayne Hodge.  He worked for me and did an outstanding job. It took a month or two but I finally got Wayne his own desk, until then he had been sharing with another sailor.

Once he got his desk set up, I passed and noticed he had pictures of a couple on his desk.  Later I asked him, “Hey Ron who’s in the pictures on your desk?”

He looked at me laughing, “You didn’t know I was Black, did you?”  He knew he was right!  We had a good laugh. Over the next two years he became a part of our family. Our sons still think the world of Wayne Hodge.

We have not been able to locate him, I would sure like to.

 

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