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To: schmelvin
Sorry, about ranting over something so seemingly nit-picky, but I really, really, hate being called a Baby Boomer. I had Farrah Fawcett hair in high school for Pete's sake! How could I possibly be a Baby Boomer?

Pictures please!! (I hope yer a girl!)

All us Baby Boomers thought Farrah was quite a FOX!

(I was born 1959)

50 posted on 03/20/2004 2:59:49 PM PST by RaceBannon (John Kerry is Vietnam's Benedict Arnold: Former War Hero turned Traitor)
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To: RaceBannon
Pictures please!! (I hope yer a girl!) All us Baby Boomers thought Farrah was quite a FOX! (I was born 1959)

LOL! Yes, I'm a girl. I don't know how to post a picture, though. (I don't even know how to post a link; that's how dense I am when it comes to computers.) BTW, I was born in 1964.

My dad's a Vietnam Vet, who unlike most Boomers, doesn't want to talk about the Vietnam War. When I was a kid, I'd ask him what he did over there, and he'd proceed to tell me these hilarious stories about all the zany things that he and his goofy friends did in Nam. But, he never mentioned anything bad happening.

It wasn't until the traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall came to town that I saw my dad break down and cry for the first time in my life. Then, I took a closer look at the Wall, and saw it: The name of the goofy best friend he'd told me all about when I was a kid. At first I thought my dad had just found out his friend had died over there, but my mom said no, my dad saw him die in Nam, but just omitted that fact from the stories he told me when I was little.

I have to wonder how my dad deals with it: Being a member of a generation that continues to revel in a past he'd rather forget. Then again, my dad's one tough dude.

82 posted on 03/20/2004 11:06:13 PM PST by schmelvin
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