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Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: BTW on July 04, 2006, 06:50:45 PM: I remember all the hoopla working up to the Bicentennial of the United States and remember watching on tv the celebration in New Yorks harbor. I was 17 and had just graduated high school (there are cute little bicentennial emblems on my diploma! :)) and was working as a painter for a company that renovated old houses. Thirty years later I'm renovating my own house post Katrina.

What were you doing for the bicentennial?
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: Sandman on July 04, 2006, 07:07:03 PM: I was fourteen. I was probably gorging myself with barbecued chicken and imagining what Kris Comb's breasts looked like underneath that halter top.
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: xrtoronto on July 04, 2006, 07:38:08 PM: gettin' high and listening to:

(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/2406/240x201kn.jpg)
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Post by: Shuckins on July 04, 2006, 07:45:31 PM: I was 23 years old, and spent the day flirting with my neighbor's beautiful young cousin. Broke my foot on a metal rod driven into the ground. I was chasing a frisbee she had tossed over my head when it happened. Big toe on my left foot was bent backward until it touched the underside of my foot.

Spent six weeks with my leg in a cast.

Happy Fourth!
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: Nash on July 04, 2006, 07:52:08 PM: I can't remember what I was doing on that exact day, but the closest thing I have a vivid memory of is about two weeks from today, 30 years ago.

I was camping with the family and the '76 Olympics just got underway. Someone in the campground had one of those small b/w TVs propped up on a picnic table on their site. For the rest of the time there, the entire campground was hudled around it, watching Nadia Comaneci, Bruce Jenner, Sugar Ray Leonard and the Spinks brothers absolutely dominate.

Good question. :aok
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Post by: midnight Target on July 04, 2006, 08:07:01 PM: I was on summer vacation after my freshman year in college. Working at Mike's Jolley Burger during the night of the 4th.

I got even though. I think I gave away more food than I sold that summer.
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Post by: Maverick on July 04, 2006, 08:40:52 PM: I had just gotten off of active duty MPOBC and was waiting for the date for my prehire physical for the PD.
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Post by: loser on July 04, 2006, 08:58:02 PM: waiting to be born...(shrug)
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Post by: DiabloTX on July 04, 2006, 09:03:47 PM: 30 years ago I was wondering what I'd be doing 30 years in the future.

Now I know.
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Post by: Toad on July 04, 2006, 09:08:15 PM: The 1Lt. and his wife went to the squadron 4th of July party and imbibed several beverages containing relatively high percentages of alcohol.
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: CHECKERS on July 04, 2006, 09:14:23 PM: Racing a Class One Unlimited Car, in the HDRA/SCORE Fireworks 400 Mile off Road Race ( night race) ....

Bob/CHECKERS
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: Sixpence on July 04, 2006, 09:17:33 PM: I was eleven, and all I remember about that summer was collecting baseball cards, spent every cent I had on them. Managed to collect the whole set, lost them in the flood during the blizzard of '78'
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Post by: RTR on July 04, 2006, 09:21:21 PM: hmmm.. not 100% sure, but might have been bumping uglies with "Marika" in the front seat of my Maverick. The bruises were worth it.

RTR
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Post by: dmf on July 04, 2006, 10:11:17 PM: 30 Years ago I think I was probally not even thought of yet.
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: rpm on July 04, 2006, 10:15:59 PM: I was 14 and watched the tall ships sail in New York harbor on the old Radiation King color TV that Mom bought at a garage sale. I'm pretty sure that was the day I decided to be a sailor.
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: AquaShrimp on July 04, 2006, 10:28:37 PM: Waiting to be born.
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: BTW on July 04, 2006, 10:35:18 PM: Quote
Originally posted by rpm
I was 14 and watched the tall ships sail in New York harbor on the old Radiation King color TV that Mom bought at a garage sale. I'm pretty sure that was the day I decided to be a sailor.

I remember before microwave ovens, color tv's being the closest thing to unfettered microwave !:eek:

I'd get a sun tan watching "Little house on the Prairie"
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Post by: Deth7 on July 04, 2006, 10:56:56 PM: I was on patrol in the pacific on SSBN-600 Gold crew :O
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Post by: FiLtH on July 04, 2006, 11:02:50 PM: I was 11. My mother had been divorced 2 yrs by then and we were living in a trailer park. I probably spent the day playing in the park with the other kids. Playing army or jumping bikes on homemade ramps, and then went to see the fire works up in town that night.
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Post by: Widewing on July 04, 2006, 11:25:05 PM: I was in Battery Park (lower Manhattan) in my Dress Whites watching the Bicentennial fireworks with friends.

My regards,

Widewing
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Post by: SIK1 on July 05, 2006, 12:14:07 AM: Celebrating the bicentennial at TAS Tehran, Iran. I was 11.

SIK1
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Post by: Saintaw on July 05, 2006, 12:23:30 AM: I was 6, so it probably involves something with toys or a swimming pool :)
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Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on July 05, 2006, 12:50:42 AM: Camping at a Boy Scout celebration at Boxwell Reservation. Shooting Civil War cannons and World War II Howitzers.
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: SFCHONDO on July 05, 2006, 02:17:15 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Sixpence
I was eleven, and all I remember about that summer was collecting baseball cards, spent every cent I had on them. Managed to collect the whole set, lost them in the flood during the blizzard of '78'

How do you have a flood during a Blizzard? Thought a blizzard was a lot of snow and it would be freezing out? If there was water wouldn't it be frozen?

Just curious how this would happen is all.
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Post by: MoeRon on July 05, 2006, 04:47:10 AM: i was 15 and remember my uncle came over with a coffee can full of M-80's
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Post by: Slash27 on July 05, 2006, 05:10:53 AM: I was 3.
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Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on July 05, 2006, 08:24:47 AM: Quote
Originally posted by SFCHONDO
How do you have a flood during a Blizzard? Thought a blizzard was a lot of snow and it would be freezing out? If there was water wouldn't it be frozen?

Just curious how this would happen is all.

Snow eventually melts, in most places, the run off causes flooding. That's one way. Also, I've seen water mains break during blizzards, and the water from a water main won't freeze until they shut the flow off, it moves too fast and there's too much of it moving to freeze. There are other ways.
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Post by: Bingo73 on July 05, 2006, 08:26:58 AM: Playin with my Tonka toys most likely.:D
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Post by: Mickey1992 on July 05, 2006, 08:37:52 AM: I was 8. I remember thinking "I hope all this bi-centennial crap ends soon because I am tired of learning about US History".
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Post by: T0J0 on July 05, 2006, 08:53:37 AM: In DC for the celebration, toured the museums all day, can still remember the Wright bros. plane hanging from the ceiling...
What a great time to be alive and 13....

TJ
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Post by: SOB on July 05, 2006, 08:59:00 AM: I imagine I was learning to walk.
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: lazs2 on July 05, 2006, 09:00:04 AM: 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
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: T0J0 on July 05, 2006, 10:27:58 AM: Quote
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

A leg re attachment?? I got nothing
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: Dux on July 05, 2006, 12:09:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by SFCHONDO
How do you have a flood during a Blizzard? Thought a blizzard was a lot of snow and it would be freezing out? If there was water wouldn't it be frozen?

Just curious how this would happen is all.

I was 13 during the Blizzard of '78, remember it well. Many coastal towns suffered severe tidal surges, killed several people.... plus, as Captain Virgil says, all that snow had to go somewhere when it melted. It was a bad storm, we were out of school for 2 weeks.
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: 101ABN on July 05, 2006, 12:23:43 PM: running around with a crappy diaper on..
Title: What were you doing July 4th, thirty years ago?
Post by: Mustaine on July 05, 2006, 12:33:01 PM: I'll never know. I was 3 years 4 months old. Only child with a single mother who has since passed... I'd like to think we went and saw the parade a few blocks away, and the fireworks, but I recall a bit as a kid I was scared of fireworks for a while.

Oh well, a milestone of our "generation" but I don't remember it.
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Post by: beet1e on July 05, 2006, 12:40:10 PM: on holiday in Spain.
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Post by: firbal on July 05, 2006, 01:09:28 PM: I was living in Ireland at the time. Missed it all.
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Post by: AKKarma on July 05, 2006, 04:01:34 PM: I made my first solo flight on July 4th, 1976 in a Piper Cherokee 140 (N6864W). I hadn’t even thought about it until I saw this thread – I should have gone up to the old airfield to make a commemorative flight!
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Post by: SunKing on July 05, 2006, 04:03:56 PM: Learning not to **** on myself.
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Post by: FUNKED1 on July 05, 2006, 04:18:06 PM: Riding a Big Wheel and stealing sips of whiskey sour from my uncles.
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Post by: Sixpence on July 05, 2006, 04:30:15 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Dux
I was 13 during the Blizzard of '78, remember it well. Many coastal towns suffered severe tidal surges, killed several people.... plus, as Captain Virgil says, all that snow had to go somewhere when it melted. It was a bad storm, we were out of school for 2 weeks.

I was in Revere, not quite 13 yet(april), and yes, a major tidal surge. It was a full moon combined with a very high tide and storm surge. Our street was 6 feet under the sea. We spent over a month at a hotel by the airport(the old ramada on 1A).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_1978
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Post by: ASTAC on July 05, 2006, 05:58:07 PM: 30 years ago? HMMM...Probrably learning to walk
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Post by: Speed55 on July 05, 2006, 06:15:08 PM: Probably making good use of the diaper i was wearing, as well as spraying puke on, and laughing at people as they made goo goo, ga ga noises at a 1 year old.
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Post by: Blooz on July 05, 2006, 06:44:40 PM: The family went to Ocean City Maryland on vacation.

I was 12.
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Post by: Mark Luper on July 05, 2006, 07:40:50 PM: 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 :D
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Post by: GtoRA2 on July 05, 2006, 08:04:45 PM: I was two, so prolly learning to shoot or something! =P

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

:rofl
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Post by: SOB on July 05, 2006, 08:16:33 PM: Quote
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.
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Post by: midnight Target on July 06, 2006, 07:53:00 AM: SOB digs scars.
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Post by: SunKing on July 06, 2006, 08:22:06 AM: Quote
Originally posted by SOB
Lazs wins.

far from.
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Post by: GtoRA2 on July 06, 2006, 10:05:52 AM: Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
SOB digs scars.

He is just about the only one in the thread who can see them without bifocals! :D
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Post by: lazs2 on July 07, 2006, 09:35:33 AM: 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
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Post by: AWMac on July 07, 2006, 09:42:09 AM: Quote
Originally posted by xrtoronto
gettin' high and listening to:

(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/2406/240x201kn.jpg)

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........"

:aok

Mac
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Post by: Jackal1 on July 07, 2006, 11:38:15 AM: 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. :D
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Post by: cpxxx on July 07, 2006, 12:35:48 PM: Quote
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 :rofl I ended up in a dead end job instead:cry It was a lousy time to be leaving school.
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Post by: BTW on July 07, 2006, 09:10:20 PM: 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.
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Post by: Golfer on July 07, 2006, 09:50:30 PM: I was an egg.