The color green is special

Image1:  Hank, at 19 years (left) and Michael Yoong, at 17 years 
communicating during military exercise at the Annual Camp 1963 

Image 2: Michael Yoong ( fondly called Dr Michael Young by his patients)
now happily retired in New Jersey doting on his granddaughter together with his
loving daughter Irene Yoong

Earlier postings of life in the Royal Military College

1. Capt (later Col) Jim Bradley (here)
2. Annual Camp 1963 (here)

3. In the Nick of Time - Kelantan River Expedition (here)

C for Color Green

The color green is special

Soft and friendly environment

Bathed in a soothing spectacle

Pleasing to the sight

That greets one in the early morning mist

Relaying a peaceful message

From the night before

Of great significance to Hank

When growing up

Of an institution akin to the 'House that 

built you' in character and in person

Yes, an institution steeped in military

tradition based on

the color of Jungle Green

Hank found himself as a scraggly innocent

Barely 15 years of age

Accepted and admitted into the 

Royal Military College years ago

A premier school

That was when color green got 

embedded fondly

for a little corner in his heart

Modelled roughly along those

of West Point and Sandhurst

But from the High School years

with option to take on a military

career or stay on civvy street

Hank chose to stay on in civvy street

But with great memories of challenges

of a soldier-boy which other teenagers

could just dream of!

For Mama Zen's hosting at Real Toads - The
House that Built You
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