Before email, important information was sent from Territorial Headquarters on yellow paper captioned
BULLETIN! My intrepid session-mate Ron Wendt occasionally sent his own creations to trusted friends on official Bulletin stock. I did not keep a copy of his most famous Bulletin, which recounted the story of injuries sustained by women in Africa as they were overrun by a herd of water buffalo while marching to a Home League Rally. It got Ron in trouble because someone shared it widely as if it were genuine.
I received this Bulletin while the Corps Officer in Old Orchard Beach ME. It came on band practice day, so I shared with a few bandsmen that evening -- including the former Territorial Commander Commissioner Bramwell Tripp. He was relieved to hear that it was a joke.
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