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Ed Paulson PhD - The BizDoctor's avatar

I should have been in your unit! Sounds like more fun! Yep. The German's know how to party. Thanks as always Ron.

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Ron Seybold's avatar

Strong start to this one. Being personal makes the writing of these instructions more unique and vivid. Me, I served in an Army where the form of celebration was a beer bust, not lunch n a mess hall. Cans of Budweiser, not any fancy kegged beer. Not until Germany, anyway. Bless those Germans. My people.

Those Army manuals were some of the worst writing I’ve seen that contained no errors in fact. Not easy to do, being so accurate and opaque all at once. At least we didn’t lose that war. Didn’t win either. Sometimes we get something good out of bad writing: the gusto to communicate cleaner and leaner.

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