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To: Ciaphas Cain

Not many 22 year olds look like that today.


2 posted on 02/19/2025 8:18:45 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Growing up during the Depression caused folks to mature quickly.


3 posted on 02/19/2025 8:22:26 AM PST by Bratch
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To: ansel12; Bratch

There are “before and after” photos around the Internet that show what young men looked like before enlistment, and what they looked like at war’s end. The differences are astonishing. They look like they’ve aged twenty years.


6 posted on 02/19/2025 8:30:31 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
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To: ansel12

How true. People matured much faster in that era, both physically and emotionally, probably due to hard work, being outdoors more and likely many other factors.


10 posted on 02/19/2025 8:43:27 AM PST by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: ansel12
Not many 22-year-olds look like that today.

My first thought, too!

Regards,

16 posted on 02/19/2025 11:05:01 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ansel12

No tats, earrings or piercings, or weird hair/devil beard..


20 posted on 02/19/2025 9:52:31 PM PST by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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