This is an actual wearable real-world product. I have several up on Zazzle, but it takes a week to get approval for these. Maximum profit allowed on the item is 5% — I’d just as soon they be free, but they’re not.

When I get approval for these, which may be never or it may be fine, I’ll post the links to them.

In the meantime, I’m also designing Designer Face Masks for Second Life — they’re called “Designer Gas Masks” because the basic design is the Mark 1A Army Gas Mask, like the ones I used back in the day when we ran through gas attacks in basic training.

I didn’t take basic. They made me a corporal and then a sergeant and gave me a platoon to train, and put me in Trainfire Cadre.

Wouldn’t ever have happened had they known I was already destined for the Army Security Agency.

It was tempting to stay at Fort Ord and spend the rest of the war in total safety, but I didn’t do that — I did the right thing, and reported for duty at Fort Devens, Mass. for ASA training, about which I can tell you nothing.

I also can’t tell you what we did during the war. They’re still doing it. Continue reading →