And just like that, she was gone out of my life again.
I thought I was going back to Vietnam,
but instead they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists
was to play Ping-Pong,
so I was in the special Services,
traveling around the country,
cheering up wounded veterans and showing'em how to play Ping-Pong.
I was so good that some years later,
the army decided I should be on the all-American Ping-Pong team.
We were the first Americans to visit the land of China
in a million years or something.
Somebody said world peace was in our hands,
but all I did was play Ping-Pong.
And when I got home, I was a national celebrity