Swamp Buggies and Hurricanes - Part II

As I wrote about last week in Part I, I spent part of the summer of 1969 working on a pipeline survey crew in Venice, Louisiana. I was working for my Uncle Sam – my Dad’s youngest brother named after Sam Houston, not as in the g overnment’s Uncle Sam. The conditions were tough, working in the swamps, bayous, and channels in the Mississippi Delta, based out of Venice, Louisiana, ...

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