EN,  The powers that be didn't like the *#%* I think and deleted the comment (** were two letters).  I don't have posts sent to my e-mail but I figured you would (most seem to do this) and my reply was really mean't for you anyway.  Believe it or not, the first time I heard the "term" SOS was from my sixth grade teacher at Danebo.  He was in the Army and mentioned SOS one day.  Never told us what it mean't but I found out in 1978 at Ft Sill, OK!