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    You know you are getting old when:

    Fragging, as I'm sure you know, was (or is) when junior enlisted men murdered their seniors (with fragmentation grenades) for whatever reason. I'm not saying it was because of their experiences in basic and AIT but bad experiences at the hands of people who are supposed to be on your side...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    True, there is that, and if you live in the South , there are other obvious examples.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    So, did you figure out what fragging was?
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    The thing that's the most difficult to swallow, I believe, is the fact that many people are really very right-wing and by that I don't mean conservative. They believe in separation of the races, maintaining the purity of the races, eugenics, staunchly anti-communist and sometimes anti-Catholic...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I very likely have a different view of the army than you. I'm very un-politically correct. You might look up fragging to see what I'm talking about if you've never heard the expression. However, my opinion of the army is very high and I was not drafted. It's far more progressive and flexible...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Possibly but it seems like everyone moved to the right after the war. All the right-wingers staked out the moral high ground early on and held on tight. And look where we at now.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Practically all I ever heard were, to be sure. And I wonder if mean drill sergeants (and this was in the army, too) had anything to do with officers and NCOs being "fragged" by the lower ranks, most of whom were draftees? But it seems to be a characteristic of every army in which the job of the...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    When I took basic training, our drill sergeant hadn't been to drill sergeant school, so he couldn't wear a campaign hat. I'm almost certain he wasn't as mean or as foul-mouthed as "real" drill sergeants. I was skinny when I went though training but somehow I managed to pass the PT test with no...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    John Wayne supposedly regretted not serving during WWII. To be fair, however, he was 34 in 1941 and already had two children. My father was 28 when he was drafted and not yet a father.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    And then there is "chittlins."
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I am 70 myself. I couldn't do ten decent pushups when I was in the army, much less now. But I had no trouble running a mile wearing boots. I was never sure that either one was a useful military skill. My son, however, who also served in the army as a tank crewman, said that changing the air...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    That's what the Ketchup Advisory Board recommends.
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    Show us your Vintage Rucksacks!

    I have two of those rucksacks and one of them is made of nylon, the other canvas, just like that one.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    How old are you people?
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    We had dinner last Friday with friends. As an appetizer, the man ordered fried brie. Like many other independent restaurants in the area, many of their menu items are what I would call Southern coastal but that doesn't include fried French brie. He's far more adventurous than I am when it comes...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I firmly believe one can thrive on "fast food," because I did, for ten years. It is true, of course, that some people's diets are deficient in one thing or another, but the human body is not always an efficient machine for assimilating nutrients from food. Different peoples around the world eat...
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    Show us your Vintage Rucksacks!

    I've actually acquired not one, but two, old rucksacks in the last month. I think I have about a dozen of all shapes and sizes. I use them all, too, although there's only one I'd want to use on an overnight cool-weather trip. I surprising number actually fit in one large box. The rest are...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    It's a case of whether the comics are a bad influence on kids or if it's the other way round.
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Thoreau, all good with a one-liner, said in so many words that the thing that worried him about when it came time to die was discovering that he hadn't lived.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    They always seemed to be a little brittle to me. But I'm not so worried about 10,000 years from now.

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