Posted on 01/11/2003 8:04:33 AM PST by Billie
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I am partial to this pic, btw...
Guess I'm just Bush Biased, huh? LOL !
I liked that picture too, that's why it's on my profile page. I just love that George and Laura Bush are sooooooo together!
Yep....that is one saying I adhere to! Especially when it involves "hugging." I come from an Italian background and we are notorious huggers (and kissers! LOL!)
My father (in WWI, and too old for service) was an engineer with the War Production Board, in charge of production for the seven Southeastern states, based in Atlanta and home some weekends.
If a manufacturer of tanks or weaponry or munitions had a production line problem, he was sent to solve it.
I lived blackout drills in Coral, Florida (suburb of Miami, where German subs were seen surfacing in Biscayne Bay), bought war stamps for my war bonds; collected scrap metal and newspapers to turn in; lived rationing of gas, shoes, sugar, coffee, butter meats and other precious goods.
When it came time to go to the college from which my mother had graduated, I balked.
It was then for women only!
One might consider going into the Marine Corps the Ultimate Escape from that - especially since I was truly a very sheltered Southern young lady..:))
LOL
Because of the references from my pastor and high school principal (Bausch-Lomb Science Award, DAR History Award, National Spelling Bee representative for Florida; 97 4-year high school average; class and Student Council Officer, etc.), I went straight from Parris Island Recruit Training to the podium.
Was a Classroom Subjects Instructor for women recuits during the Korean Conflict at Parris Island.
Also spent 12 years as a military wife; taught school at Myrtle Beach AFB for the Department of Defense; had one son in the Army (Air Traffic Control), and his son just finished his enlistment in the Air Force in October, subject to recall if 'things start flying.'
It is said my blood flows in ribbons of red, white and blue..))
I think this is so true for many things. For me it's true w/my skating coaches. I have to laugh w/your choice of words about speaking the same language. My favorite coach is Russian. Sometimes we have to work to figure out how to say what he wants to say in Engligh. Yet we still speak the same languauge.
Have a great day - and it was nice getting to know more about you last week.
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