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IN October 1972 I turned 19. I turned 70 last week. The old saying "if I'd of known I was going to live so long I'd of taken better care of myself". My dad dies at 52 and my grandfather (Dad's dad) died at 72. The upside is everyone on my mother's side lived to at least 85. I have 15 years to go !! woohoo !
I saw Tom T Hall in Anchorage Alaska in 1976. He actually put on a good show.
kwg
For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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In November 1972, I was 22 years old.
At that time, I had relatives in their 80's and 90's.
I heard oral history from a great uncle* who came from North Carolina to Texas (Houston) by steamboat when he was 8 years old. Then by steam packet up the Trinity river to Palestine, Texas.
Houston was a tent city with mud streets. Palestine had board walks, a railroad, concert halls, bands and a locomotive works that built steam engines!
My maternal grandmother lived to be 100 years old. (1894-1994)
* - died in 1972 at 98 years of age.
P.S. - I turned 73 recently. Yeah! I'm OLD! LOL!
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Speaking of watermelon shine.....I swear the local country station played it three times in an hour the other day...
-OMotS
"If memory serves fails me..."
Quote: ( unnamed) "been prtty deep in the cooler todaay "
Television and radio are most effective when people question little and think even less.
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Campfire Outfitter
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I was 16 years old in '72. Next trip to the liquor store I'll have to look for watermelon wine. Hopefully it will be better than Boone's Farm Apple Wine we was drinkin' in '72!
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
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Campfire Ranger
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I would have been 3½. As far as feeling old, I sure do sometimes. I've been a tradesman since high-school and through college, so there are some aches and pains, but I still enjoy playing around like a 30 year old. Just last weekend at an early Thanksgiving with my side of the family, I joined my nephew and his son in throwing around a football. There was a lot of running and jumping involved and I survived without injury.😀 I believe activity like this helps keep us feeling a little younger.
4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan. 
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November 72 I was 32 years old, flying EC-121 missions out of Korat. Sometimes it seems like yesterday.
How the hell did we get so old so quickly ?
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We knew we'd get old, we didn't think it'd happened so soon. 
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Old age doesn't last long. Rio7
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