Just moved to north Utah that year. My father was transferred to a defense contractor rocket factory. Started 5th grade. Had to fight the worst bully at my new Mormon dominated elementary school the first day. Luckily for me I didn't know he couldn't be whipped and he was hollering for mercy in about 2 minutes. At least I wasn't picked on the next couple of years there, just kind of shunned as a gentile. I did get elected class sheriff after 3 tied ballots. Beat a Mormon girl.
Patriotism (and religion) is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Jesus: "Take heed that no man deceive you." Hebrew Roots Judaizer
From Lewis Grizzard's I Haven't Understood Anything Since 1962...:
"I had a handle on things in 1962...I'd never heard of Vietnam in 1962...I didn't know that eating fried foods was bad for me...Arnold Palmer was still winning golf tournaments...Sandy Koufax was still pitching for the Dodgers...I had a pretty blond girlfriend...The best thing on television was 'Gunsmoke'...Miss Kitty was a good businessperson, but she wasn't pushy and could accept a compliment from a man without charging him with sexual harassment...I slept well in 1962...But the very next year, somebody shot the President...Then the Beatles came...Then all hell broke loose..."
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
Hmm, 1962? I was in the U.S.A.F. stuck at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas. Worst place they could have stuck me. Even ugly chicks were hard to get unless you had money and in 62, an E2 didn't have much money. Ended up with a girl who said she was 19. Had an accident and got married. Turned out she's lied about her age and it was get married or go to jail. I got married. That lasted all of 5 years, Didn't see her again until last year when my granddaughter got married. The ex had turned onto shapeless blob and looked like Jabba the Hut. Guess I could call that my great escape. The only good part of duty at Nellis was the TDY at Indian Springs, just a short drive to Lathrop Wells on payday. Did one three moth tour at Springs in 62 and another in 63 just before I got shipped out to Korea. Life got real interesting after that. Paul B.
Our forefathers did not politely protest the British.They did not vote them out of office, nor did they impeach the king,march on the capitol or ask permission for their rights. ----------------They just shot them. MOLON LABE
I had forgotten what a great movie this is, turns out Kaywoodie was running the press in Shinbone back then, who knew?
Fortunately he bounced back from that beatdown real good.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
I had forgotten what a great movie this is, turns out Kaywoodie was running the press in Shinbone back then, who knew?
Fortunately he bounced back from that beatdown real good.
All I rememberfrom that little episode was hearin’ someone say, "That was my steak, Birdie!"
Edit. My fav movie from ‘62 was "Hatari!" Saw it on a trip to Austin down on Congress ave.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
In 62 I was 16 yrs old, in high school without a care in the world. Viet Nam was not a thought and I had probably never heard of it. Four years later I was there!