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    Name your favorite films based on true stories.

    One I haven't seen listed here already is, "Waterloo", the 1969 Anglo/Soviet production. A little oddly written but still an amazing spectacle.
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    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I was lucky, because my school district - while comically underfunded (I didn't know school nurses and swimming pools in schools actually existed until I was long out of high school)- did have such a program which was run by a university. We got bussed there every Thursday from elementary school...
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    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I always chuckle when someone whines about how the thread went a different direction. Don't people like that know almost every conservation you've ever had for more than a few seconds did the same thing? Online, you can read it all, but how many times have you talked for a while and someone...
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    Collection of vintage military uniforms & peaked caps on offer...

    Caps and uniforms for me, please.
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    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    'Nam, I assume?
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    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    The internet has bred "slactivism" to a degree where people think clicking, 'like' on someone's Facebook page is the same as actually doing something. Revolution? You're not going to see one because the majority of people have insulated themselves so thickly that they have no intention of every...
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    Collection of vintage military uniforms & peaked caps on offer...

    I'd love to see that list!
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    I'd love to see that list of hats, helmets and uniforms you were looking to sell...

    I'd love to see that list of hats, helmets and uniforms you were looking to sell...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Dang. If you pointed a gun to my head and said I had to eat that, I'd say, "Pull the trigger Skippy, 'cause I ain't even gonna pick it up!"
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    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    A college diploma is indeed now what a high school diploma was, say, in the 60s or 70s. You can get by without one but you gotta work 4 times as hard to get the same job (if at all). The funny thing was when I went through Army ROTC, they paid us a monthly stipend. the silly thing was it hadn't...
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    Families of the Lounge

    Thanks, good post. We celebrated 15 years in May (which explains that Alaska photo, as that was on a cruise for our anniversary, re-creating our honeymoon in 2000). Funny thing is, I love her more every day. I didn't realize before I got married that this would (or even could) happen.
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    The Nazi Gold Train

    I get your point, but I spent a lot of time researching a stateside training field for the AFF in my hometown and you'd really be surprised how little documentation there was about what had happened to certain areas after the war and where some things had gone. I found no record, for example, as...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, well, there are people who couldn't have two-legged children (like my wife and I). Just don't forget that before you judge people who use that term...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Maybe, but I wouldn't eat either. I can't stand seafood of almost any kind.
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    To all the jackets you've loved before (that traveled in and out your door)

    A had a really nice condition original WW2 B-10 jacket in size 44, with a silk Chinese blood chit sewn into the lining, bought at a re-enactment flea market in Tampa in the 90s from a vendor who simply didn't understand how rare it was. I must admit I do miss it from time to time, but I was...
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    USAF band WWII Holiday tribute

    Interesting, they're still wearing officer's uniforms with enlisted insignia. I saw this band doing their 40s thing back in the early 1990s and they hadn't changed since then. I'd read later that they didn't want to re-create the 'scratchy wool' uniforms of the enlister AAF troops in WW2...
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    Christmas poem for all you NASA fans I wrote last night...

    The EVA before Christmas -By Lee Bishop T’was the EVA before Christmas and up on the Moon, The mission near ending, I thought much too soon; The suits just then stowed for a long lunar nap, When at the main hatch, we both heard a loud tap; Outside the window there seemed clouds of smoke, I...
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    At The Front - Deals of the Day

    Same here. A lot of people think he's a jerk for all those rants he used to post, but I understood where he was coming from and how crazy the re-enacting world really can be. I've actually sent him a few emails over the years, thanking him for putting up with the knuckleheads to keep putting...
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    At The Front - Deals of the Day

    It's about the same. Wish it came with the AAF insignia, but it's a good value even at the full retail!
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    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    Coal smoke. I'm a train fan from way back and on the east coast, almost all steam locomotives were coal-fired. I live in the Pacific NW now and almost all those were oil-fired. It doesn't smell the same way at all. In September, I went to the NE corner of the country and got to ride the...

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