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Posted on 04/19/2019 4:42:05 PM PDT by Maceman
Also 1969–gen x
Glad we made it :)
There’s THREE of us !!!
I sense an omen or something.
1950,
“Twas born about a month before the first flight of the B-52.
1954
I agree with you
Half the forum. At least born prior to 1965
Not many under 40s
I’m the zenith of boomers and USA births in general
Born in fifty seven raised in Hinds county....
Tell me that funny.
Don’t be silly
And LBGA and her memorial thread before she sadly died far too young...a pretty southern woman
Plus one on both points
I’m 61 and as a boy almost all my peers dad’s were WWII vets
As a young cowboys and Indians or rebs and Yankees or us versus krauts or japs
We’d always ask how many folks they killed ....most took it in stride knowing we were grade school
The usual answer was I was too busy ducking I couldn’t tell or I’m not really sure they were far off
One man though who was career marine and was a lt colonel by 1934-64 at that point and had done the Pacific island hopping campaign
He looked square in the eyes and told me more than I could count son....they just kept coming...they were fanatics.....we were lucky we whooped em.
I never forgot that man his dad was like superhero to all of us in the neighborhood
Course nobody ever brought it up again
My uncle killed a young jap in Borneo in a clearing face to face...he took the boys personals and mailed them to his family after VJ Day
It bothered him
Nunya Bidness.
A family friend of ours - our "adopted Grandpa" - loved to tell people that he was the National Chaplain of the Retreads. Then after they'd show that they were very impressed, he'd give a sly grin and add, "Of course, there's less than a couple of dozen of us left, and I'm the only ordained pastor in the bunch, so...."
He had a lot of self-deprecating humor like that.
I miss the funny threads and captions of pics and the zots of trolls
_____
me too
esp Mia
one of my biggest regrets is not making the first Freeper ball. I was alone with four kids... trying to make the jumbo mortgage payments, working outside the home for the first time in years.
FR helped. After the kids were in bed, there was adult conversation.
I wish we could find more people and another generation.
I think the site is too slow for the younger ones.
If we could post pics easily and had like buttons.
I think we had like buttons once. Or was it view counters.
Yes it was view counters.
This has been a great place to grow old with.
It has been good. I am a shy one so it has permitted me to talk with so many others here. Good people.
I have a friend who has a place in the Adirondacks, love to visit there.
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