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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....05-02-06....A Walk on the Beach
| Posted by LadyX to GodBlessUSA; Mrs.Nooseman; MEG33; WVNan; snugs; DollyCali On News/Activism 05/02/2006 12:59:51 PM EDT · 70 of 194 It has been an incredibly wonderful and varied life, spanning so many major events in America's history. Born at the end of The Great Depression in a quite different America, where doors were not locked, strangers welcomed and fed, and as litle girls (my sisters 5 and 9 years older), we freely and safely left home and either walked or went by Coral Gavles and Miami city buses anywhere we desired, without an adult. WWII impacted us greatly, Pearl Harbor happening when I was 7 1/2 - sharpening my patriotism to the 'nth' degree. No time to indulge in fairy takes, instead playacting how brave I would be if I were a prisoner of the Germans or Japanese...collected scrap metal and newspapers to turn in for the War Effort...dug play foxholes in vacant lots with the little boys in the neighborhood... Okay - it was a tad extreme to go into the U.S. Marine Corps!! LOL - I loved being a classroom instructor, though, and feeling useful to my country, during The Korean Conflict. Spent 12 years as a military wife (Korean Conflict, The Cold War, Cuban Missie Crisis, Nam) - taught school one year - then spent 6 years in retail management, and after that, 18 1/2 years in and around medicine. Gypsy Woman is an All-American Woman...:) |