How I first accessed FR……
Posted on 07/19/2024 2:42:31 PM PDT by ken in texas
Hard to believe but this weekend it will be 25 years since I joined Free Republic. Time sure flies when you're having fun.
Congratulations! Forgot to celebrate mine...lolol.
Here’s to 25 more years.
I can’t believe you live in Texas and have never been to Colorado. C’mon, man. They love us there. Especially going over a pass in an RV.
Congrats.
Congrats you noob! Welcome to the silver club. 🧡
Hey newbie :-)
Me last year
August 1998 I mussied up the gumption to post, as opposed to just read.
It was before they tried to take it down via lawfare and we posted entire articles.
This was to have them on record and to provide full context.
Fair use for social/political public discussion.
I see you attended the Air Force Academy. I used to live there. I lived in Pine Valley, the base commissary was located atop of the hill which separated Pine Valley from Douglas Valley about the time they had just completed the multi-domination Chapel. Loved Colorado Springs.
Were you aware that there was a small cave near the Academy entrance gate? It wasn't a big cave. We thought we would build a little fire in there one winter day by using leaves. The guy I was with was too slow existing the small opening so I pushed him out. as the cavern filled with smoke. Needless to say as we were leaving the base Fire Dept. could be heard enroute.
There was an old abandoned NCO Club. When they were demolishing it, they found that a rattlesnake den was underneath it, containing 10s of thousands of rattlesnakes. They ended up dynamiting it.
JFK gave the commencement speech in 1963. I saw him but from afar, so I couldn't really seem him clearly. Shorty after we move to Davis Monthan. That Nov. I was operating the projector for a film be shown to the class, when the teacher came into the room announcing that President Kennedy had just been shot. I didn't think much of it, because it was inconceivable to me that he would die, because he was the President of the U.S.
Never too late to opus out.
I will have been here 26 years on 14 August. We are so old that we blow dust when we fart.
;-)
1998 was my start with the Free Republic. Shared the account with my wife until I got my own.
Wonderful, way to go newbie
Me too.
Where does the time go? Nov. 99 for me.
I even remember where I was when I joined FR. Pulling a graveyard shift and reading FR to get a better understanding of the Kosovo war and bombings.
I still wonder if the human race is going to survive its own stupidity.
I’m a mid 98’er too, but one morning in 1999 my credentials disappeared. John put me back, but 99 is better than nothing. But I was here for the impeachment follies and that awful 1998 election.
How I first accessed FR……
LOL! Beat me to it!!
Congrats.
I did not even think about my Silver until you mentioned it. I hit mine about 18 months ago.
No, I wasn’t aware of a cave. Which entrance was it near, north or south?
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