I'm so old I Remember when:

[jxp]

I remember when young folks joined the Peace Corps to see the world.
I think it was the Navy that had a slogan "Join the Navy and See the World?"

I remember the movie "The Ugly American".

Or Greenpeace to see the oceans.

 

[Rose_adamaj]

When I was a teenager, I volunteered as a candy striper. I worked in the soda shoppe and later, when I was a little older teens, I delivered mail and gifts (usually flowers) to the patients rooms.

Do they still have candy stripers?

Auto correct wanted to put ‘strippers’ Really changes the job description

 

[jxp]

I remember it going from 18 to19 to 21.

I remember in NYS it went straight to 21. My best friend at the time, JoAn was #3 of 10. The law hit between brothers Joe and David. You can imagine the butt hurt.

 

[R2elk]

But you could drink at 18!

WV and CO allowed drinking 3.2 beer at 18. Wyoming didn't. The HP would set up road blocks near the CO/WY border and bust the teens for illegal possession of alcohol.

 

[jxp]

Did any of you serve in Korea or Vietnam?
I have a great uncle who was a prisoner of war for two years in Korea, but I never was able to meet him (he died before I was born).

My brother just missed the age cut off for the police action in SE Asia when he joined the USN. Later, in the Army reserves, he went to both Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

[jxp]

I was born and raised in FL and we used crab and shrimp for bait to catch good fish. Dad ate liver and I refused as the more I chewed it the bigger it got. We did eat chuck roast cut up into small pieces for beef stew. I ate whatever was on the table or go hungry. I ate the vegetables if liver was the meat. Fried chicken was my special delight. I was introduced to sirloin when I started dating my wife. Her dad cooked a mean sirloin on the grill. We had neighbors who cooked their chitlins in the early morning hours so no one would smell the stench. l remember so many things that people did to survive the 50's and heard from parents what people had to do to survive the 30's and 40's and maybe that's why I have no sympathy for the generations that whine and squall it they don't get what they want when they want it.

Can I like this comment more than once? Pretty Please!?

 

[Rose_adamaj]

My brother just missed the age cut off for the police action in SE Asia when he joined the USN. Later, in the Army reserves, he went to both Iraq and Afghanistan.

My brother in law served in Vietnam.
My Dad & father in law were in WWII. My Dad later was one of the guards at the UN. That’s how he met my Mom, who grew up in NYC.
My Dad never spoke about the war.
He was in hospice at home. As he neared the end Dad said he couldn’t get up to get in line with his unit. My siblings and I stood up and told him we were doing it for him. Dad looked at us, took a deep breath and appeared satisfied. Dad only spoke once more after that. The impact of what he saw & did during WWII was so profound that it was one of the last things he thought about before passing.

 

[jxp]

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Aw, #€££ naw!
That's a Halloween costume, right? Some millennial's idea of a hippie? That sure ain't anyone I knew.

 

[pertnear09]

Aw, #€££ naw!
That's a Halloween costume, right? Some millennial's idea of a hippie? That sure ain't anyone I knew.

I saw a few dressed in that manner, sans the glasses.

 

[jxp]

Yeah. I lost him 2 or so years ago. Alzheimer's.

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Have you seen the jeans the guys wear nowadays? I'm not a fan. Skinny jeans are for girls .

Oh, the girls have all gone to yoga pants.

As my brother likes to remind me when seeing thunder thighs and donut rolls challenging the seams of those things walking into the local grocery, "they're a privilege, not a right."