No Competition Supercharged Bistro – Corrales, New Mexico
In the 1978 movie Same Time Next Year, Ellen Burstyn’s character lamented that her husband considered his years in the Army the best years of his life. When Alan Alda’s character, her partner in a 26-year adulterous affair, commiserated that many men felt that way about their time in the military, Burstyn retorted, “but he spent two years as a prisoner of war.” I can’t relate to being a prisoner of war, but can fully appreciate why so many men cherish their time in the military. More than playing sports in high school, the military develops a camaraderie and esprit de corps you will never experience anywhere else. Even Hawkeye Pierce, they cynical anti-military doctor who served in Korea with the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) recognized “I’m “closer to these people than i’ve ever been to anybody else in my life, or ever expect to be.” When some of us return to civilian life, memories are mostly all that is left of the close relationships we cultivated during our terms of service. We tend to lose touch with the brotherhood of friends and colleagues for whom we would have happily taken a bullet. That’s not always the case, however. …
