What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?

[Mark Luper]

I don't really remember 30 years ago on the 4th, I was almost 30, but I vividly remember 45 years ago on the 4th. I got my first kiss from who is now my fiancee. She was 13, I was 15. It was her first kiss too and we were each other's first sweetheart. Now we are each other's last

[GtoRA2]

I was two, so prolly learning to shoot or something! =P


Man some of you guys are [SIZE=8]OLD[/SIZE]

[SOB]

Originally posted by lazs2
I was in the hospital with an expired kaiser card and a re attached leg and 8 more broken vertebre and various other broken bones trying to explain to the doctor (who was jewish) why I needed to have at least a maintenance level of alcohol every day to go along with my morphine and.... to please ignore the ss tats.

lazs

Lazs wins.

[midnight Target]

SOB digs scars.

[SunKing]

Originally posted by SOB
Lazs wins.

far from.

[GtoRA2]

Originally posted by midnight Target
SOB digs scars.

He is just about the only one in the thread who can see them without bifocals!

[lazs2]

as sunking points out.... mine was not a winning lifestyle but it had its moments....even in the hospital when the boys brought in the hooker and locked the doors...  

Not much of a way to live but a hell of a place to have come from.  

Still... would rather have done things my way and learned from abusing too much freedom than like many today are learning from not having enough.

Was smoking in the hospital in the critical care ward for example...  the damage done to my lungs was a hell of a lot less than the damage done by losing the freedom to do so.

I don't smoke now but... when I quit you could still smoke in theatres and we woulda laughed if you told us that in 30 years a person who owned a business would be thrown in jail if he allowed people to smoke in his building that he owned.

there is no law too outrageous it seems these days that will get todays generation in an uproar.... most of the time they are even all for em.

There are exceptions of course and I know some of em...  seems that on an individual basis the kids today are just as independant as we were... they just are overwhelmed by the media and the overpopulation and the propoganda...

As individuals... I still have a lot of faith in them as Americans.   By the time they need bifocals.... I hope things are better and not worse.

lazs

[AWMac]

Originally posted by xrtoronto
gettin' high and listening to:

Yep and trying to break the record of how many times I could jump from a Huey at Ft. Bragg, NC.  

18 then....

"Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona........"



Mac

[Jackal1]

I was in Amarillo Tx trying to wash the 50lbs of sand out of my throat and thinking what a wise move it was to be there in the first place.

[cpxxx]

Originally posted by firbal
I was living in Ireland at the time. Missed it all.

Where did you live in Ireland?  

I remember watching the bicentennial on TV.  I was enjoying my last ever school holidays. That summer there was a heatwave, glorious sunshine for weeks. I was looking forward to leaving school the following year and joining the Irish Air Corps as a pilot. How naive I was  I ended up in a dead end job instead:cry It was a lousy time to be leaving school.

[BTW]

If anyone is interested, Tues, (the fourth), my 8 year old nephew came in proudly stating the country was 230 years old. This got me thinking of the bicentennial and how much (MUCH) happens in 30 years. Personally, of course 17 is vastly different than 47. But the world has changed so much. In 1976, I don't think I heard of Iran and I KNOW I never heard of Iraq. If someone would have told me the USSR was going to drop communism I'd have called them a nut. Reunification of Germany???? CRAZY!

Its just mind boggling when you look at the change in 30 short years.

[Golfer]

I was an egg.