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Vietnam Veteran Vow Eats 40-year-old Cake - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 25th Jul, 2009 - 3:03pm
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He received it in 1973 after promising he'd eat it on the day he retired
Vietnam Veteran Keeps Vow, Eats 40-year-old Cake
Wow, he is surely brave! 
I don't think I could do it. He said the cake tasted good.
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| WASHINGTON - Forty years later, Henry A. Moak, Jr., still loves his pound cake. The Army colonel popped open an old military 'C' Ration can of pound cake from 1969 at his retirement ceremony, and dug in. Moak got the drab olive can as a Marine helicopter pilot off the Vietnamese coast in 1973. He vowed to hang on to it until the day he retired, storing it in a box with other mementos. After a formal retirement ceremony, dozens of friends and relatives joined Moak in the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes as he opened the can to cheers. Moak joked earlier this week that he hoped the can wouldn't explode. It let off a whooshing sound as the pressure seal broke. "It smells good," Moak said as he put a handful in his mouth. He jokingly staggered back a few feet and loudly cleared his throat, while one person yelled out, "Eeww, gross!" Moak pronounced the cake "good." "It's even a little moist," he said, wiping his mouth. He dared anybody "gutsy" enough to join him, and retired Lt. Gen. Paul T. Mikolashek, who was the U.S. Army Europe commander when Moak served overseas, took an even bigger piece. "Tastes just like it always did," Mikolashek mumbled with a mouthful of cake as Moak laughed and clapped... |
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Either you have plenty guts or you're like real stupid. He is going to be in the toilet overnight after that.
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