43 years ago today

  This is me and my parents' dog Snoopy in the back yard of their Delphi, Ind., home the afternoon of Nov. 2, 1965 - the day I got home from my 41-day career with the U.S. Air Force.

I was still sporting my 65-cent haircut.

Here's how I looked a couple of weeks earlier in a photo booth at a Lackland AFB Base Exhange.

Just for the record, I enlisted rather than get drafted and received a medical discharge for allergies.