It started during this last extended trip to Spain. The Spanish have lunch at 2PM. It is difficult to find an open table at any restaurant at that time.
Soon after I arrived at the dispensary for my tour of duty, another physician bachelor was added to the roster. That made eight of us, for a small dispensary, yet we were busy.
I was drafted into the US Navy three years after the Tet offensive. The number of US troops in Vietnamese soil had diminished, but by no means was our presence in that unfortunate country paltry.