From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 06:22:26 PDT
> I have to put the US in there because people don't typically
> know where Vermont is. I was stationed in Alabama and was
> questioned by police as to how I had joined the U.S. Air Force
> since I was from Vermont, which they thought was in Canada.
Ouch!
-Laurent.
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