Forty Rod SASS 3935
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Couldn't even put Carol Burnett or any other show from that era one...and that Is a crying shame.
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My Mormon relatives and acquaintances thrive on genealogy. I revel in family legends, tales, as stuff like these payroll records.
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2 hours ago, PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L said:
Did y'all know that using WHITE canvas on covered wagons in a parade celebrating the Oregon Trail migration is RASIZT!!
The organizer of the event has ordered that the covers be "colored" (i.e. anything other than WHITE).
BULLPUCKY!
I'd boycott the whole shi--eree and tell everyone why1
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On 4/20/2024 at 3:50 PM, J-BAR #18287 said:
Ridden by too many overweight SASS members:
That poor old soldier deserves a peaceful end to his carrer. That makes me both sad and angry.
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51 minutes ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:
I earned at BS and a MBA and I didn't pay a cent for them. Football scholarship and the company I was working for paid for my Executive MBA. Guess I should hang my head in shame....NOT!
You traded something of value to someone. That is a form of payment, so you don't need to hang your heard in any company ever.
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4 hours ago, Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 said:
There were several scholarship programs for WWII vets returning after the war. I worked for a lawyer who attended law school at my alma mater on a full ride, despite never obtaining an undergrad degree. This was a private program, funded by the law school, intended to help to compensate for the time and opportunities the vets lost by being out of the normal flow of school and work. My memory is that the admissions dean at Harvard ran a similar program. There were (and still are) folks who want to do the right thing.
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Again, NOT free. He earned it, just paid it off in advance.
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11 hours ago, watab kid said:
nothing is free - someone is paying for it ,
ill add that my daughter got a 'free ride' at a couple different universities but she worked it off coaching in one case for a masters and the other masters was paid by an employer that wanted to keep her , her startup was playing ball and she worked her tail off for that too ,
Now, see? That ain't free. She's paying her way as she goes along.
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14 hours ago, Michigan Slim said:
My daughter is getting a free ride(mostly) at Purdue University. All she needs to do is do well, and her employer picks up the tab. She works full time for a very good company that see her potential like her mom and I do.
She's earning it just for being as good as she is and having someone recognize that fact.
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20 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
The Hazlewood Act is a State of Texas benefit that provides qualified Veterans, spouses, and dependent children with an education benefit of up to 150 hours of tuition exemption, including most fee charges, at public institutions of higher education in Texas. This does NOT include living expenses, books, or supply fees.
Note: You have to be a Texas Resident when you enlist.
Not free. Some vet earned tha tfor them.
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20 hours ago, Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680 said:
Pretty sure CA still gives a free ride to state colleges for dependents of veterans, even if they're a straight white male.
That isn't free. Someone earned that for them.
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I may have mentioned two of my great grandfathers who were Confederate soldiers. One was scour for General Sterling Price and the other signed up and was on his way with a few others to get uniforms weapons, and cetera when a Yankee patrol captured them and he spent the rest of the war in a POW camp in Michigan.
Well, I recently was given some of Mom's papers that my sister had ever since Mom passed. Sis didn't know, nor did she much care, what they were.
Four eight and a half by fourteen photo copies of pay records for Private Robert C. Owens (My grandmothers uncle and brother to the one who was a scout) of Captain Landis' Company, of Light Artillery, CSA. There are four pay records per page and start on December 8, 1862. There are some gaps because the next one, dated July (can't read the day) 1862. Skip ahead and he is on the Roll of Prisoners of War, captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863 and now living at Camp Morton, Indiana.
He was released January3, 1865 after refusing for the entire time he was a prisoner to accept parole and finally taking the oath of allegiance to the Union at Camp Morton, Illinois. He was released at Gratiot Street Prison, Saint Louis, Missouri. He was described as dark complexion with brown hair and black eyes, standing 5'7 3/4" tall.
One more brick in the wall.
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Tiny uneducated minds attempting to make their mark on the world by screwing people better than themselves into changing to fit their twisted values and denigrating (OOOOPSY!!!) them while doing it.
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I want to see those plates that exploded.
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10 hours ago, Stump Water said:
Barracks
Not in my time. Ours were raw wood chicken coops ans we didn't have sandbags on the roofs.
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8 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
Wouldn't that be "ARRR!" rated? (Come on, you know SOMEBODY had to do it).
GO TO YOUR ROOM. NO SUPPER NOR TV FOR YOU.
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So far it looks good, but I'm still praying for all of you.
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My daughter got a full scholarship to Carnegie Mellon. We picked up the tab for lodging, food, travel. clothes, etc....but she worked at The Tartan and for Mister Roger's Neighborhood for a lot of that. She also got her first year's rent for free because she turned a room under the stairs into a bedroom, study area, and big closet. The landlord paid for the materials, she did the planning and all other work.
Also came in as Salutatorian of her college.
None of this was "FREE"! She skipped fifth grade and we refused to let her skip eighth because we felt she needed to be with kids her own age
for her social development. It was a good decision then and still is.
She stated two businesses, one with a partner and one on her own, didn't marry until she was about 45 . Sold one business, Soapbox LLC Washington DC, to her partner and the other to someone that she never revealed to me. Her husband retired from the Marine Corps as a CW5 and they are now living in North Carolina in a house worth nearly a million dollars that they pretty much built themselves.
NONE OF THIS WAS FREE!
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13 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
There is no evidence that those individuals are alive.
Look at ME! I's still alive....mostly.
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Watch Hell Is For Heroes. In one scene near the end of the movie Nick Adams, playing Homer, a Polish kid who wants to fight the Germans, uses a hasty sling the way I remember it being done.
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On 4/20/2024 at 12:24 PM, Alpo said:
Peacock Appaloosa
Some mighty interesting "paint jobs" on those horses
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Drank water from a garden hose, ate raw veggies and fruits that we took right from the plants, played with BB guns, lawn darts and other other evil toys, climbed on Jungle Gyms and overhead ladders, used tether balls and hanging chains, roller skates, pogo sticks, home made stilts, played dodge ball, swam in irrigation canals down stream from pastures and feed lots, hitch hiked all over the country, made swings out of old tires and rope, build soap box cars with roller skate wheels, shot arrows in our back yards, used home made sling shots made out of forked sticks and inner tubes, played mumble peg with real knives, never heard of seat belts............and much more.
We survived and many of us grew up without much illness or injuries.
Now we live in an over-protective society and all this is gone.
Kids don't have adventures any more, they have computer games and cell phones.
Very sad.
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So now you know. Had a frat brother who bought one (1964?) with a slant six and the humongous rear window and the girls just fell all over him / it. He got rid of it within a year because it just didn't perform up to its image. He ended up with a Volvo (?
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I'm looking for pictures of the Quonset hut offices at Cam Ranh Bay in 1968. I'd settle for photos of the Butler Building shops there or the two story chicken coops that served as barracks.
I'd also like pics of the native foliage in the vicinity.
I'm also looking for any pictures of the Marine Barracks at Seal beach form about 1974. I'd like them to show the Torii Gate out front. Another settlement would be pics of the "igloo" ammo bunkers in the A Area.
I'm trying to make a some dioramas and my memory just doesn't suffice as a reliable source any more.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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How many TV, movie, or comic book cowboys ever used one?
I can remember Leo Carrillo doing amazing rope tricks (and he was a fantastic horseman who was in his 70s when he played Pancho) but he's the only "cowboy" actor that I recall seeing doing anything with a rope.
Restoring a 1914 Bissell
in SASS Wire Saloon
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I'd like to have something like That, just because it's cool.
My dad had a lot of old tools that he restored. Over the years they vanished one by one. I have few (VERY few) that I managed to save, a Yankee drill and Yankee screwdriver, a massive block plane, and som lesser stuff.