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February 1968

Five Years in AA--SLIP--COMEBACK

An AA returning after a slip takes deliberate aim on wanting sobriety above all else

IT is almost ten years since I was first introduced to AA. My drinking history had carried me across Canada 4,000 miles from east to west, and as far north as Whitehorse in the Yukon. This was not boxcar traveling. It was in the air (in more ways than one), as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The RCAF finally surrounded me with a veterans' hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for "acute alcoholism."

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