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John Charles Buchanan

West Point, 1958

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Jim Hankee on April 29, 2010:

We invited the Buchanans over for bridge and dinner one Saturday evening at Fort Bragg. I remembered that John had been an avid bridge player at West Point. Their bridge was outstanding; we were really outclassed.

I had pre-mixed a batch of whiskey sours and put them in the refrigerator; I tried a new "formula" having read that if you mixed an uncooked egg white to the batch it would make them extra smooth.

What happened was that the egg white "gelled" the drinks in the refrigerator and as a result they came out as gobbs instead of fluid when I poured them! I was very embarrassed and we all had a great laugh and a great evening.

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