May first - tough day for me
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Topic: May first - tough day for me
Posted By: JohnCO
Subject: May first - tough day for me
Date Posted: 01 May 2018 at 1:59pm
Fifty years ago today, 5/1/68, I got drafted, ended up in Germany and then Greece, not bad duty, considering. Also got out on May first two years later, thanks to leap year.
May first 1997 my dad passed while in Ohio, visiting family. He was within a few miles where he was born 79 years earlier.
I always look forward to May second, figure there is less likely hood of something earthshaking happening...
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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 01 May 2018 at 3:49pm
Funny how we remember certain dates. For me it was May 16, 1998 when I almost lost my wife in an auto accident on my birthday and then in August I lost my brother on his birthday. 1998 was the pits in my book.
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1968 one-seventy
1956 F40 Ferguson
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 01 May 2018 at 10:30pm
Sorry for your bad year Stan.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 01 May 2018 at 11:44pm
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I gots sum bad dates too, but can't remember them! think we all do. sorry you 2 hafta remember them dates...it's gotta suck when upcoming, on, and just after.
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 02 May 2018 at 9:51am
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Hopefully now that it is the 2nd the rest of the first was quiet in Co.
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 02 May 2018 at 11:44am
Yup, getting some much needed rain today.
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