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raratt

raratt

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Aeroknow said:
I usually don’t watch much of friday qualifying unless i’m at track lol. Same with Sat. I usually always watch sundays on dvr. But being the finals i’ll watch a little more than usual
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Friday evening qualifying is the most important I think, but it's a craps shoot if they play it or not. Putting off airing Sat qualifying to before the finals on Sun is stupid.
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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raratt said:
Friday evening qualifying is the most important I think, but it's a craps shoot if they play it or not. Putting off airing Sat qualifying to before the finals on Sun is stupid.
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It’s a crap shoot when you’re at Sonoma for friday qualifying. It’s like every other year they’ll actually race top fuel after dark, which is the main reason i’d go. Everytime i’ve been to friday qualifying at pomona(dad lived in pomona for years) they finished the funny car and dragster qualifying runs at night. At Sonoma, bunch of fucking pussies that complain about noise, even though they live pretty far away from the track. It’s stupid.
 
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raratt

raratt

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Aeroknow said:
It’s a crap shoot when you’re at Sonoma for friday qualifying. It’s like every other year they’ll actually race top fuel after dark, which is the main reason i’d go. Everytime i’ve been to friday qualifying at pomona(dad lived in pomona for years) they finished the funny car and dragster qualifying runs at night. At Sonoma, bunch of fucking pussies that complain about noise, even though they live pretty far away from the track. It’s stupid.
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I guess it scares the grapes.
 
tangerinegreen555

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BarnBuster said:
IK it's not the same as your Dad talking but the Library of Congress has a real interesting oral history Vet's program. It's chilling, listening to some of these guys relating their days/weeks/months at Guadalcanal, Okinawa as well as the European theater. Their stories pale to some of the ones from the trenches of WW1.

Search results from Available Online, Veterans History Project, Personal Narrative

Search results 1 - 1 of 1.
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World War I: The Great War | World War I (1917-1918) | Serving: Our Voices | Veterans History Project Collection | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

So massive was the destruction wrought by this conflict that many thought it would be the war to end all wars--hence the eventual designation of it as “The Great War.” The United States had over 4.7 million men--and several thousand women--in uniform during WWI. These collections are a treasure...
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Cool, I'll save the link.

My dad used to hook up once a year with his outfit for get togethers. They actually printed a book with everyone's name in it and where they went from mid 1942 until the end. I doubt if anyone is left at this point, dad would be 101 now.
I know I have that book stored in the attic of his old house where my daughter now lives. I'll have to go attic hunting when it gets too cold to work outside.

Everytime I go up there I wind up spending hours running into things I forgot about. There's a box of Japanese family pictures, religious items, little Jap flags, documents, etc., that were recovered from dead soldiers, my dad saved them. They kind of show the other side was human and it was their government that sent them to fight. Pictures of wives and children, mothers and fathers, etc., that they never saw again. I was fascinated looking through them as a kid.

I still have my dad's discharge uniform. He brought over in a suit bag one day 20-25 years ago worried that my mom would throw it away or something. Lol. No chance of that.
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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tangerinegreen555 said:
I still have my dad's discharge uniform. He brought over in a suit bag one day 20-25 years ago worried that my mom would throw it away or something. Lol. No chance of that.
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Nice!
I’m gonna make a trip down to SoCal for christmas to visit family. We were all gonna go last christmas but then the fire. I was going to surprise my cousin with my grandpas ww2 canteen.@BarnBuster thx again!
That cousin of mine has shitloads of my grandpas other stuff from the wars and from the other years he was enlisted. Not that the canteen isn’t safe with me, but i’ll let him add it to the collection.
 
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tangerinegreen555

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raratt said:
I have mine, but there is no way I can fit in it. I get that my waist isn't what it used to be, but my shoulders are too wide is the problem. How does that happen?
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My dad couldn't come close to fitting in it. He weighed 185-190 most of his life.

He was discharged at 142 after 3 years of island hopping and jungle fighting and he got malaria before antibiotics were in widespread use. He said they gave him quinine for it and was sick for weeks in Australia where they sent them for treatment. He was never able to donate blood because of it.
 
Laughing Grass

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
popcorn ain't a brand, it was an old man...who made shine, and pretty damn good shine.


old smoky isn't shine, it's craft liquor....after they cut shine, it's still at least 160 proof. it has to "hold a bead" on a jar, it will do something similar to the legs wine makes on a glass if it's high enough proof, if it doesn't, it's not strong enough....
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Lol “take the hair off a wooden leg”. I don’t think we’re allowed to have that high of alcohol content here.

It’s been all weed all weekend for me. Got the harvest bagged and everything cleaned up. Moved the seedlings into the buckets and made some cannabutter with popcorn bud. Not sure what I’m going to make with the butter.

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