Typical Summer Day at NKP in 1967
This one was taken from the
doorway of the room I lived in for 11 months.
The focus is off a bit but so much rain is in the air that it’s hard
to know how much being in focus would have been.
The barracks across the mud included more of the two-man rooms the FACs
shared. You can see how well all
the undergrowth has been cleared out. When
I returned to NKP in 2000, I found areas like this overgrown with some trees
20-feet tall, or so. I wanted to
return to this area but what had been a two-lane blacktop road down the hill
from Invert and the officers club was totally overgrown and offering too much
of a snake threat for us try continue east of the site of the O Club.
Normal forecast for NKP: 80
inches of rain, or two inches of rain for every three days for the four months
of May through August.
For those of you who’ve read A
Certain Brotherhood, the single tree by the dumpster was the model for
Goodwin’s tree, which you read about in Chapter 7.
