How are things in Okinawa?

[blamebrampton]

Anyone on my flist in or near Okinawa? I may need to trek off for a week for work, which is on the one hand fab, YAY Japan! And on the other hand, I have limited money at the moment, am completely behind on everything, and really want to get back to the UK for a month and this is not helpful.

Meet-up would definitely sweeten the situation!

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[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

HEE! No it wasn't, it was INTERESTING! And I think you should read the letters, it;s good to realise how nomal your parents were :-)

[geinahop]

I will eventually. The letters are in storage right now. We moved into a much smaller house, and lots of things are stored away for a while.

You don't realize how much you don't know about people until it's too late. I know a lot about my parents, but there are so many more things I wish I'd thought to ask them while I still could.

Another interesting tidbit about my dad's time in Okinawa. They held something like a Top Gun competition, and my dad was part of one of the teams. He was an electronics engineer, though I don't know exactly what he did on that team. It was on the ground, though. I want to say he told me his team won, but I'm not sure I remember that part right.