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« on: March 28, 2015, 09:49:06 AM » |
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in Korea. It shows two things (maybe more). !.........I was a lot thinner then. 2........I was in Korea. My outfit was two miles north of this sign om route 30 it was called then. 3........ This sign was very popular later. it appears in a lot of pics from vets of the Korean War. Wayne  |
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R J
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« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2015, 10:29:30 AM » |
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You could run around with your hands in your pockets?
We couldn't. If we did and got caught they filled our pockets with rocks and sewed them shut. They got heavy. Trust me, you only do it once.
I have a picture of that sign somewhere also. Don't have a clue where it is, it might have went through the flood in mom's basement where a lot of my stuff, (clothes, pictures, dress blues and etc) got destroyed. My car was in the basement and it got a good mouth full of water in the engine, transmission and rear end. Interior was totally destroyed. Insurance low balled me on the car and they ended up with it.
Sorry for the hijack Wayne.
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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2015, 10:34:06 AM » |
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Looks to me Wayne that you were a lean mean fightin machine!  Good pic.  RIDE SAFE. |
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2015, 10:49:42 AM » |
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RJ, we only had that chicken s*** in basic training. You probably noticed that my pocket was unbuttoned BUT my GI buckle was centered with the shirt buttons. Now if I would've been the mailman on that day instead of the driver, I could've looked more gung ho since the mailman was allowed to carry a loaded .45 in a GI holster on a web belt. Frigging dumbarse medic rules. Reminds me of watching a Marine 2nd Looey clearing his 1911 .45 before entering the PX in Seoul. He cleared it by shooting a hole in the roof. Even Marines make mistakes.  |
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« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2015, 10:50:59 AM » |
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Great pic, I'd blow it up and frame it  |
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« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2015, 10:55:06 AM » |
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I already have made an 8x10. I'll frame it and put it on my new coffee table as a reminder.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2015, 12:13:20 PM » |
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Wayne , you haven't changed a bit. (where are my glasses)
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« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2015, 12:58:04 PM » |
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I had the honor of having one of my pics on the front page of Graybeards Magazine. The KWVA organization (I'm a Life member). I titled this AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL! A welcome sight passing under the Golden Gate on the troopship, with two rainbows making it even better. Yeah, I also get gnats when i hear "The Stars and Stripes" played by a military band.  |
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« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2015, 01:05:57 PM » |
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Ross, you'll really need glasses after this pic. Dennis, I was lean but too skinny to be mean! Basic training, bivouac, 1952. I had no fat at all, then.  |
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« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2015, 01:11:33 PM » |
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And to finish it off. Here is a pic of me and my friend, the other geezer, RJ, taken about six years ago at the CBR in Indiana, when we both were younger and in better health. Now it's motorcycle related  RJ was in Korea before me. He was a Marine and received five Purple Hearts. I had it easy, he didn't!  |
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