50 Years Ago Today
The morning of 6-2-1965 I boarded a Greyhound bus in Ringgold, Georgia headed for Atlanta and my induction into the Army. Later that night it was on to Ft Jackson for eight weeks. After basic it was...
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Fifty years ago, I was a pilot assigned to the US Army Antarctica Flight Detachment, and was located in Newport News Va. I had just returned from the ice, and was either finished with...
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50 years ago today I was five days away from high school graduation. I was 17 and a few months, the youngest in a class of 110. Our 50th reunion is scheduled for this coming Saturday. It was a little...
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High school, 15 going on 19. heading to sophomore year and had just got driver's license. My, what a long time ago.
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Just out of college and three months away from enlisting - September 1965. 50 years ago, wow!
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50 years ago: Twenty years old and waiting to be drafted (didn't want the extra year that went with enlisting). Spent 23 years in the Army nevertheless. 110 years ago today: My father was born at a...
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Just about finished with Basic Training at Great Lakes, Ill and kinda mad that I had to return for EN "A" School for 12 weeks, looking back, that wasn't that bad at all, spending the summer in that...
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OUT of boot camp on the way to '''A''' SCHOOL at NAS MEMPHIS TN....HATED EVERY MINUTE..MOONSHINE WAS GREAT THOUGH!!! SAW ElViS Pretzilsticks house.....
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6-2-1965Sylvester, GA, walking around a Nike-Hercules base, PFC 95B1D, MP Sentry Dog Handler,,had to be one of the most boring duties in the entire Army.(Took a "short" and re-uped 3 months later, to...
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I had just completed my sophomore year of high school and was hard at work bagging groceries to pay for the 1953 Chevy that I had just bought. After work I was cruising around listening to songs like...
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LOLVol wrote:My parents hadn't even met yet.LOL...no wonder us old farts get your blood pressure up....you're just a kid yet.
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crewchiefuh1h wrote:LOLVol wrote:My parents hadn't even met yet. LOL...no wonder us old farts get your blood pressure up....you're just a kid yet. Comparatively speaking, only a small number of our...
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Sorry guys, I was just a little 5 year in 1965 and now I walk down the road you guys lay out for me......... Thanks
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MACMACred1 wrote:" little 5 year old"I was acting like a five year old according to my old man. I wanted at 17 to get in USAF which scared him. He was a B24 WWII crew man. All he saw was VN and war....
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I had just finished up my junior year in high school and was working as a bag boy in a grocery store. I think I got something like $1.25/hr plus tips. I hustled a lot of carts of groceries out to the...
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I was on our farm chasing chickens and ducks. I had turned 5 the week prior.
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I had just taken the Love of My Life(back-then)to Her Prom, Last Month.And now she was getting ready to Graduate from High School on the 5th of June.I had Graduated from High School the Year...
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