Somehow, I got thru 4 years in the Marines without getting a tattoo.
Practically all of my buddies did..........
“ Somehow, I got thru 4 years in the Marines without getting a tattoo.”
Me too, Devil Dog! I was 9 years.
I grew up in a neighborhood where the only tattoos I saw were numbers on the forearm. They have had a negative connotation ever since.
Somehow, I got thru 4 years in the Marines without getting a tattoo.
Practically all of my buddies did..........
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Same here. 6 years in the Navy and zero tattoos.
Some of us just don’t buy into fads as doing what everyone else is doing.
I did 6 years in the Navy, never once had the urge to get a tattoo. One of my buddies did--he got a Snoopy carrying a golf bag on his arm. We gave him a lot of sh*t for that! That was mid-to-late 80s...I suspect tattoos are much more prevalent now. I just never understood the need to "express" yourself, or "preserve a memory" by the use of a tat.