Strings attached.
I think it was September 1985. We were sitting out on a poolside area at the Intercontinental Hotel on the Island of Maui, Hawaii. The topic of discussion was why was America in Vietnam. Certainly a heavy discussion for the time and place. One person in our midst was a pilot for PanAm airlines. He was a crew captain. He argued the necessity of being inVietnam. Back at that time he flew B-52’s and bombed Hanoi and other targets. Thus was most certainly in favor of engaging North Vietnam in war. The captain was sitting in a poolside chair wearing his swim shorts with a Hawiian shirt. Sitting directly across from the PanAm pilot was myself wearing swim trunk and a colored T-shirt with the Premo logo over the left brest pocket and arguing we should had never sent armed forces toVietnam. Next to my right was wife and arguing the same.
Then to her right in a chase lounge chair and leaning back for maximum sun exposure was a PanAm flight attendant from Germany. For a native German she spoke exceptional English.
What was most distracting and hard for me to consentrate was the flight attendant was wearing a skim; tring bikini. She took a netural position on America’s presenes.