DO OLD PEOPLE SMELL? SCIENTIST SNIFF EACH WAY

New York Times article appeared in the Arkansas Gazette on 08/19/19 titled "DO OLD PEOPLE SMELL? SCIENTIST SNIFF EACH WAY" which prompted me to write the following letter to the Gazette and they printed.

As if I didn't  have enough to be worried about as a large segment of the population already blame Old, White Haired Caucasians for all the problems the country has today.  They may be right. Now in my late 80s, I must smell something awful.  I did get a lecture on how to take a shower though, which you might find interesting. While on Project Redwing, on a tiny Island, 1/2 mile wide and just enough length to land a B-52, all our water had to be distilled and my Commander had just come from a meeting where he and the other commanders had been severely lectured about wasting water.  Our CO then lectured us on  just how to shower.  "Turn on the water, get wet, turn the water off, soap down, turn the water back on and rinse off"  There were times however, if the Geiger Counters reading were too high, to remove the radiation we would  jump back  in and take another quick shower.
There was a plan in place to evacuate the island if radiation saturation reached a certain point.  A Navy Destroyer was standing by that purpose.  Saturation level was reached one time and we all got ready to get out to the Ship, but the radiation level dropped, and evacuation was cancelled.  So we just took another quick shower to remove as much radiation as we could.

The Study did however, find that middle aged men smelled worse than old men.  Thank you...

Anyway, out here on my Big - Little Farm, I keep active and shower and try not to smell up the place and try not to be too deplorable when I go to Walmart...
                                                           Donal