[cherry]

real men who served in WW2 often had tattoos....my dad had a great Navy one....

[LearsFool]

real men who served in WW2 often had tattoos

Back in those days, many real men got tattoos. Nowadays, lesser men get tattoos thinking that's what makes a real man.

(Same thing with these "super-size-me" pickups I see everywhere. Used to be that real men who worked hard needed heavy-duty pickups. Nowadays, lesser men get big pickups thinking that'll make them real men.)

Too many think the TRAPPINGS of manliness are the SOURCE of the manliness.

[Jim from C-Town]

I think the most important word in your sentence is ONE! Many people today look like Robert DeNiro in Cape Fear.

[haircutter]

did your dad have them covering his entire body??? didn't think so...

my brother got one while in AF many years ago, when he got his first real job...he was told to keep it covered up...said he regrets ever getting one...said he grew up.

my husband was Army in the 1960’s said that was one thing smart people never did...we have two adult kids..neither have any tattoo's.

[Windflier]

real men who served in WW2 often had tattoos....my dad had a great Navy one....

My granddad was from that era, but he built bases and naval ports for the War Department during WWII.

He had one, and only one tattoo. It was of a Polynesian girl with no bra and a grass mini skirt on his forearm. When he'd flex the muscles in that arm, her hips would wiggle back and forth.

My brothers and I thought that was the most tricked out thing imaginable.