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[Vanity] Finally hit my FR Silver anniversary
None | 19 Jul 2024 | Ken in Texas

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.


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To: ken in texas

Congratulations! Forgot to celebrate mine...lolol.


21 posted on 07/19/2024 3:23:56 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: ken in texas

Here’s to 25 more years.


22 posted on 07/19/2024 3:30:33 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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.


23 posted on 07/19/2024 3:33:25 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ken in texas

Congrats.


24 posted on 07/19/2024 3:33:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ken in texas

Congrats you noob! Welcome to the silver club. 🧡


25 posted on 07/19/2024 3:40:50 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: ken in texas

Hey newbie :-)


26 posted on 07/19/2024 3:41:19 PM PDT by Bobalu (I can’t even feign surprise anymore... And I am tired of the 🐂 💩!)
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To: ken in texas

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.


27 posted on 07/19/2024 3:46:37 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ken in texas
Congrats.

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.

28 posted on 07/19/2024 3:46:55 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (uiring)
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To: ken in texas

Never too late to opus out.


29 posted on 07/19/2024 3:52:05 PM PDT by keat
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To: ken in texas

I will have been here 26 years on 14 August. We are so old that we blow dust when we fart.


30 posted on 07/19/2024 3:53:34 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: ken in texas

;-)


31 posted on 07/19/2024 3:53:39 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ken in texas

1998 was my start with the Free Republic. Shared the account with my wife until I got my own.


32 posted on 07/19/2024 3:54:01 PM PDT by Mark was here (When Gabby Giffords was shot, Democrats were laughing on NPR, wishing it was Sarah Palin.)
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To: ken in texas

Wonderful, way to go newbie


33 posted on 07/19/2024 3:58:19 PM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: Mr Rogers

Me too.


34 posted on 07/19/2024 4:01:05 PM PDT by tiki (To)
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To: ken in texas

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.


35 posted on 07/19/2024 4:01:11 PM PDT by Boomer (The dems and rinos have pegged the evil needle so hard, Satan now answers to them.)
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To: Mr Rogers

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.


36 posted on 07/19/2024 4:01:32 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: arthurus
I started on a 486

How I first accessed FR……


37 posted on 07/19/2024 4:03:04 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: M Kehoe

LOL! Beat me to it!!


38 posted on 07/19/2024 4:05:13 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: ken in texas

Congrats.

I did not even think about my Silver until you mentioned it. I hit mine about 18 months ago.


39 posted on 07/19/2024 4:08:52 PM PDT by RainMan ((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
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To: Robert DeLong

No, I wasn’t aware of a cave. Which entrance was it near, north or south?


40 posted on 07/19/2024 4:10:08 PM PDT by ken in texas
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