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Was lurking in the A Shau Valley. Whiskey was cheap at Camp Eagle. š I am heading down to a funeral for a friend tomorrow. Special Forces, Ranger advisor, BDQ (Biet Dong Quan), '69-71, Central Highlands. You boys had some tough duty, my hat is off to you all!
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We had about 250 or so in my class at least 30 or more dead , two years after we graduated I know at least eight or nine were in Jackson penitentiary!
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I turned 10 years old that day. f up year lost my dad , grandmother , a girl in my class , and just about my older cousin in nam . enjoy every day that you are still sucking air
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I turned 10 years old that day. f up year lost my dad , grandmother , a girl in my class , and just about my older cousin in nam . enjoy every day that you are still sucking air So today is your birthday? If so, happy b day.
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Was lurking in the A Shau Valley. Whiskey was cheap at Camp Eagle. š My friend Sam mentioned that place I believe. He had been around on two tours.
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My stepfather ran my ass off the day after I graduated, never went back. He had promised my mother I could stay until I graduated. A friend of mines father bought him a suit case for graduation, when they got home, he told him to take any of his stuff that would fit in it, then he threw him out of the house !
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My stepfather ran my ass off the day after I graduated, never went back. He had promised my mother I could stay until I graduated. A friend of mines father bought him a suit case for graduation, when they got home, he told him to take any of his stuff that would fit in it, then he threw him out of the house ! I took my clothes, thatās it, didnāt have no suitcase. I had a 65 Chevy truck Iād bought myself. I stayed in a motel for a couple of days, got a furnished apartment, got married that September. Iāve been at it ever since.
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Fifty years ago today I graduated high school. It was also Friday June 4 on that day. I canāt believe itās been that long. Iāve been very lucky. Probably took ten minutes to call 42 names. I was getting ready to turn ten when you graduated high school. I needed to read your post. Makes me feel young. LOL. 
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Fifty years ago today I graduated high school. It was also Friday June 4 on that day. I canāt believe itās been that long. Iāve been very lucky. Probably took ten minutes to call 42 names. I was getting ready to turn ten when you graduated high school. I needed to read your post. Makes me feel young. LOL. Wifey will be 58 next Thursday, so was she, gives me crap about that. I guess an old bastard was all you could get is my response. She could have done a lot better.
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Class of '58 here. 63 years ago. Very few of us left.
BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN HIS MIGHTY POWER. ~ Ephesians 6:10
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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Class of 78. We graduated on my Birthday, May 19th that year. Seems like a lifetime ago. š¤
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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i was 17 and thought my 16 year old girl friend was pregnant ,but she wasn`t ! otherwise i would have been a farmer boy was i lucky about that ! she may have been gorgeous but she is even today is high maintenance lady i believe.
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Had my 50th high school reunion five years ago. June, '71 I was at Cubi Point.
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49 years since graduation for me, some of the guys talking bout having a bash at start of Football season as we won the State that year, nobody expected that.
Will have been married to the same girl 49 years in September as well. She walked in and sat in from of me in typing class, (smelled good then, still does). She was not impressed that I was captain of the team or president of my senior class, but she took pity when I broke my hand and started doing my typing and passing it back...got her three kids and life time of trouble, but we hang together still.
To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.-Richard Henry Lee
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Wow,just did the math,this week is 40 years ,lol.Still remember getting an empty diploma folder, school wanted me to go to summer school for un-filled detentions,my mom threatened to sue,i got it in the mail.
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I was reporting to Ft. Eustis for A.I.T.
Congrats on your anniversary and longevity, Hanco.
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Fifty years ago today, I was getting frisky with my first real girlfriend. It was the summer before my junior year, and what a summer it was. My gosh what a beauty she was.
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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Fifty years ago today, I was getting frisky with my first real girlfriend. It was the summer before my junior year, and what a summer it was. My gosh what a beauty she was. I was there two years before that with ex wife. Those were the days.
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Boy, you fuggers are old! +1 Boy you are old LOL it was only 49 years ago since I finished high school. 
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Class of '70, evidently not having a reunion till next year. Proposed theme "70 from '70" (how hokey is that ?)
I'd proposed a joint deal with the class of '71 - shot down.
At 40, we'd lost ~ 30 IIRC, from a class of 130, more or less (don't remember exactly)
How the He!! many will we lose in the next year? We AIN'T "improving with age"!
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
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