50 years ago tonight
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Topic: 50 years ago tonight
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Subject: 50 years ago tonight
Date Posted: 22 May 2018 at 10:45pm
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I graduated from high school. Where the he## has the time gone?? Got a message from class secretary last weekend. 1 of my old gal pals died 3 years ago, another had a massive heart attack, had quad bypass last week. My best pal died 7 years ago. 8 or 10 more have passed on. I guess we are gonna have a 50th reunion. Hoping the old gals have retained some of their looks. I probably won't be a patting them on the backside any time soon or later, guess its gonna be at a winery so there's always a little hope.
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Posted By: Red Bank
Date Posted: 22 May 2018 at 11:03pm
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This year is my 30th since graduation and I understand how you feel. I am in shock over how many of my classmates have died and personally I feel like it was yesterday I graduated. I have never felt my age I have always felt and acted younger
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 May 2018 at 11:26pm
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I never went to any of mine, to many "clicks" that they still think they are better than you! but, if we have another, I may go, cuz most of them others have died! musta been sum bad weed!
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 23 May 2018 at 5:44am
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37 years ago for me. Just doesn't seem possible. Now my youngest will graduate Sunday afternoon. Darrel
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Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 23 May 2018 at 7:15am
My 50th was in 2015. I wanted to go but an A_C tractor show took priority so missed it. Maybe 60th but don't really care.
As a side note, attended grandsons (Jamie) graduation Monday evening.
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 23 May 2018 at 7:28am
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Shameless I have the same feelings toward my class and a reunion ! I went to one after I graduated, at a class mates home. His dad and uncle sat and talked farming with me while the rest of the class a lot of who were sports jocks or pot heads and had nothing in common with us drank themselves stupid ! I left about 10 p.m. as I had cows to milk in the morning!
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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 23 May 2018 at 7:28am
My 40th is coming in July but it's the day before the second grandson is scheduled to arrive. If he comes early then we won't make the reunion and that's OK with me as anyone who I wanted to keep up with I have, the rest is just curiosity on how fat they got.
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1957 WD45 dad's first AC
1968 one-seventy
1956 F40 Ferguson
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 23 May 2018 at 7:31am
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As an afterthought the cows always knew when I had been drinking the night before as they would kick and not cooperate in getting milked ! The girls had their way of training me !
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Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 23 May 2018 at 8:08am
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Fifty Eight years for both my wife and me. She went to a different school than me.
Dusty
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 23 May 2018 at 9:45am
This year is 54 for me. We have a great class president and secretary (husband and wife now) that keep us informed about illness and passing of our class members. Guess I was blessed, small class (80) and no cliques to speak of. The ones from town sort of hung around together and the ones from the county hung together but we were pretty much friends and are sort of like an extended family today. Appearance wise time has not been kind to some but others have not fared so well. On the other hand my wife has nothing to do with her classmates (big city school) and has not been to a single reunion.
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Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God.
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Posted By: wfmurray
Date Posted: 23 May 2018 at 10:02am
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Would be 62 for me .Only had 15 and not lost but 3. Most over 80 are it will soon be coming up .
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 23 May 2018 at 3:28pm
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We're having our 55th this year, a lot of the goodie tow shoes haven't come because we didn't have the in high class places we had them where the regular people could afford to attend. We have lost quite a few also.
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Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 25 May 2018 at 9:39pm
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Ya I know what you mean by the clicks. Haven't gone to many of them. Thought I go to this one cause the darn winery took bankruptcy and left us holding the bag for $800.00 bucks. Still gots 3 or 4 old buds I haven't seen in 10 years or so. Might get lucky.
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Posted By: Michael V (NM)
Date Posted: 25 May 2018 at 10:16pm
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40th this year for me...I don't know if classmates have anything planned ..may go just to see a few I haven't seen since last reunion...
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Posted By: Wayne180d
Date Posted: 25 May 2018 at 10:51pm
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45 years for me this month. love seeing the jocks with beer bellies and bald heads and the cheerleaders are all fatter than a pig and the homeliest girl is now the cutest. Time marches on.
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 26 May 2018 at 12:16am
We had our 50th last summer. Graduated on 6767. It was good to see the folks who showed up, 350 in our class, about 65 came to the 50th. Some looked real good, some not so good, lost about 40 over the last 50 years, none since the reunion, that I've heard of. Quit worrying about getting lucky, just happy to still being seen and not viewed!
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 26 May 2018 at 4:46am
It'll be 45 years here, and haven't gone to very many... maybe two. Don't really care here either.
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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 26 May 2018 at 6:37am
Well tis weekend will be another alone but would have been 49 years Roxann and I were married . So one aniversary I do miss and its been going on to 4 th year now .
Seems we graduated from same school but 2 years apart 57 years back for me and would have been 55 for her . Now figuring I joined the Navy reserve while in high school would be almost 60 years on that . Figuring I was driving truck the last couple weeks - wow got my Chauffeur License way back also - now called a CDL license - seems I just turned 16 and guy i was working for took his test and I did also that day - mine said truck only while employed !
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 27 May 2018 at 9:58pm
We didn't go to our 50th either. We went to different schools, her to a public and me to a Catholic school. Had 360 some kids in my class.
The ones I wanted to see over the years, we've kept in touch. The rest of em, especially the clicks I couldn't care less. Still don't.....
The only one I wanted to go to was our 40th. They didn't have one,,,,the only reason I wanted to go was so I could look at all the snobs when they asked; "What do you do?" I would have told them that "I'm retired". Bunch of golden spoon rich kids.... leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
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