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Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch-Part Six
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Heres a fun game for you old timers recognizing cars by the rear fins and taillights I got 50 out of 56 89% see if you can beat it. Nothing to buy no info required.
Tailfins and Taillights
Tailfins and Taillights
You know the biggest thing I remember about the military is all the different kinds of people you were exposed to and made friends with. From people who were given the choice of Jail or Enlist, Army or Marines guys who were real smart who probably did or could've done a lot in life but got drafted. I made so many friends with so many people from different walks of life but your friendships were usually not forever usually. And even with that I don't remember any fights or someone hurting or killing a fellow soldier.
Interesting all the rain and disasters everyone's getting.Hasn't rained here in weeks. Temps in the 80's but humidity so low, don't even need air. Which is odd so close to lake Erie. (5 miles-ish) And mebbe 10 miles to lake Ontario.
Uh, so what are you breathing???
You got the master!!
- Dec 18, 2013
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- Dec 18, 2013
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- Dec 18, 2013
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- Dec 18, 2013
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I have maintained contact with only about 6 people that I met while in service and there are a few that I have not kept in touch with, but would love to find again and see how they are doing...
In Memoriam
composed during WWI.....
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae, 1872 - 1918
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead; short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
composed during WWI.....
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae, 1872 - 1918
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead; short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Yeah our weather is weird too. Really no rain a little here and there but rally nothing all spring. Lots of clouds but don't drop any thing and temps haven't been high but supposed to go from 60's to 90' this week. Everything is really dry already. We've had really cool nights which is nice and probably what has kept our fire danger to Med but 90''s will make a change in that. 3 more weeks till summer.Interesting all the rain and disasters everyone's getting.
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I was just a kid and I enlisted .. my Father served as well as my Grand Dad and Great Grand Dad .. when I got out of High School, we were not financially well off, and my Dad said :: "Yes, it's a risk, but you'll learn discipline, you'll get 3 meals a day and a place to sleep and then you'll have the G.I. Bill when you get out" ..
Three High School buddies that were part of a Garage Band we had at the time decided to join with me, Dave, Rod and John .. I'll never forget the bus trip to Ft. Polk, LA .. we stopped at a roadside eatery along the way, somewhere near the Texas / Louisiana border, it was late evening .. the Army was paying, so I ordered a giant Chicken Fried Steak with mashed potatoes .. I remember it tasted so good ..
We stood in line to get our haircuts in the hot sun, the piles of hair around each chair mounding up ..
It was August in Louisiana, and it was hot and humid .. my Drill Instructor had been deployed for 3 tours and was as tough as stale beef jerky ..
.. a bit under six months later, I deployed .. It was both one of the best times of my life, and at the same time, the worst .. coming home was maybe the worst .. I will never forget those days .. if Fate had left me with a child, I would have given them the same advice my Dad gave me so long ago ..
I am proud and happy that todays Service Men and Women get the respect they earned, because it was not always that way ..
Well, my home is finally nice and clean..feels good....now I'm going out under the carport to sit and enjoy the nice day...
watching the temp. house keeper/cleaner for three hours has tuckered me right out.....
watching the temp. house keeper/cleaner for three hours has tuckered me right out.....
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You deserve that extra help after what you have been through the past two weeks. Enjoy, but, like Gary said, don't keep her prisoner. Soon you will be doing your own housekeeping again, and glad for the exercise.
Heck, the whole Iberian peninsula does, can't see why a dinky little fort wont.
Don't you remember? The rain in spain stays mainly on the plane??
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