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Title: Something to think about.
Post by: Tupac on September 08, 2010, 09:03:23 PM
When I look at pictures or clips of video from WW2, I think about the people in those pictures......They are either dead, or in there mid 80s/early 90s.

Does anyone else think about this? It really kinda bothers me. Same thing with pictures from the civil war or ww1, except I know that all the people in those pictures are dead.

Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: Jayhawk on September 08, 2010, 09:13:34 PM
I think about it every time I get out my wallet.

Pour some out for your hommies.

(http://www.visitingdc.com/images/george-washington-picture.jpg)
Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: Tupac on September 08, 2010, 09:20:29 PM
I think about it every time I get out my wallet.

Pour some out for your hommies.

(http://www.visitingdc.com/images/george-washington-picture.jpg)

I mean, an actual picture. Like a snapshot in time, Thats how I think of pictures
Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: Jayhawk on September 08, 2010, 10:03:30 PM
Hey, this is the best they could do at the time.

Don't hate.
Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: oakranger on September 08, 2010, 10:12:22 PM
I think about it every time I get out my wallet.

Pour some out for your hommies.

(http://www.visitingdc.com/images/george-washington-picture.jpg)


lol
Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: Dichotomy on September 08, 2010, 10:49:44 PM
Every SINGLE time I think about my Grandfather, Uncles, and various relatives, that were called and went.  Even my ex relatives,their friends, and various others I know and have known, who have recently had to go in harms way.  I always respect our service men and women who put it all on the line.   :salute



Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: uptown on September 09, 2010, 07:50:11 AM
I watch a lot of old war footage and every single time I wonder if that guy or the guy over there made it out alive. I wonder what the world would have been like today if that war had never happened or what if Hitler had been killed in the first world war.
All the wasted youth, destoryed dreams and families that never were. The Sullivan brothers , 5 sons that never had a chance to start a family or civilian career. I often think about how I wouldn't even be here today if my grandpa hadn't been picked up after his destroyer went down in the pacific. So yeah I think about these kind of things all the time.  :salute
Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: VonMessa on September 09, 2010, 08:51:05 AM
There are some that are "Still above ground" (the standard response to the "How have you been, Ken?" question)

4 years on the USS Monongahela AO-42  in the South Pacific     :salute

89 in July and ornery as ever....  (now it my turn to take care of HIM. he is my 89 year old "kid", spoiled rotten for 60 years by my Grandmother)  :D

...supervising as I build the wing ribs for my Bearhawk....

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/100_1347.jpg)


 

Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: uptown on September 09, 2010, 08:54:48 AM
 :lol and he still smokes!  :rock
Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: VonMessa on September 09, 2010, 09:10:57 AM
:lol and he still smokes!  :rock

Like a chimney.  Non-filtered (rolls his own)

Since December 8th, 1941  (He enlisted in the Navy the day after Pearl Harbor)

 :rock

EDIT:  added pics

Young and eager   :rock

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/Grandpopsail2.jpg)

OR, in color if you prefer (not as easy as I thought it was gonna be)

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/Grandpopsailcolor.jpg)
Title: Re: Something to think about.
Post by: sluggish on September 09, 2010, 09:19:35 AM
When I think of that era the images are always black and white.  My mom said that when she thinks of her childhood her memories are in black and white.