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1969
Jun 13, 2019 2:01:22 GMT
Post by Bevo on Jun 13, 2019 2:01:22 GMT
No, not 'tough' or anything like that, Bevo, but just Lucky. 5 of my fellow 8 man infantry squad guys were not so lucky. I just wanted to get through my required service there without getting hurt or hurting anybody else in that wasteful idiotic war. Also, a little correction - Nixon was my commander in chief at the time (69) but I actually got the "Greetings from the President" draft letter in 68 from Johnson. Oh yea.. Nixon is the Pres that ENDED the war... so, we had to get rid of him. Well, I'm glad you survived..
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1969
Jun 13, 2019 2:08:56 GMT
Post by Bevo on Jun 13, 2019 2:08:56 GMT
This is the last response I have from the old post... For the life of me, I don't remember WHO this was.... It might have been the supremely CRAZY guy who left when he became a judge? I don't know... I remember SOMEBODY recommending that book, "Hogs, Horns, and Nixon". I DID go buy the book and read it. Loved it. I thought Zoom or RupturedDuck had recommended that... but, RD was not 53, and Zoom grew up in Houston, like me... so I don't know WHO it was.... any ideas??
i am 53 , so my recollections are very similar... was jsut thinking about how all these fearful histrionics in t he media seem so overdone..and how mega-creature comforts of today have somehow robbed this yougn generation of something... my fondest recall is that i hooked up with buddies for baseball, football or basketball every day after school...every day!-- growing up in sopranos country of new jersey, we had no grass fields and played football, baseball ( with hard rubber ball). basketball and even hockey in sneakers( with a tennis ball) in the street. we were 'warned" to play at the other end of the block when the mobsters congregated- replete with retrospecticively recalled armed bodyguards outside the house- at mr parisi's house on fridays... the recollections are still very pure...super bowl III traumatized me for 20 years....i was a huge fan of the gemini and mercury astronauts..you were a rford family or a gm family...occsioanl chryslers aorund...which signiifed having money...caddy;s reserved dfor the elites....and i always would think the local college basketball teams ( e.g. st peters, columbia, LIU, manhattan) were just as good as the ucla's, kentucky's etc...off on a tangent..sorry...BEVO--- THE 1969 TEXAS- ARKANSAS GAME WAS ONE OF THE GREATEAEST EVER.. RECOEMMENDATION FOR YOU: GET THE BOOK" HORNS , HOGS AND NIXONS COMING " BY TERRY FREI..A SIMPLY SUPERB READ ON THAT TEXAS MAGICAL SEASON ( JAMES STREET, COTTON SPEYRER, THE FREDDIE STEINMARK STORY)AND THAT GAME IN PARTICULAR....
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1969
Jun 13, 2019 12:48:00 GMT
Post by doc on Jun 13, 2019 12:48:00 GMT
Was it Dr 3, or something like that - i think he lived around Baltimore. He was a Michigan fan but tolerable!
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1969
Jun 13, 2019 20:07:42 GMT
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Post by Bevo on Jun 13, 2019 20:07:42 GMT
Was it Dr 3, or something like that - i think he lived around Baltimore. He was a Michigan fan but tolerable! maybe it was HellYeah Hokie? The other guy was something “yankee”??
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