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    You know you are getting old when:

    You know you're getting old when the only reason something doesn't hurt is because it's numb--and everything itches. I may have said that before because your memory goes, too. Not your long term memory so much, just the short term part. But that's only because there hasn't been anything really...
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    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    We all have different ideas about adventure, or rather, the sort of adventures we'd like to have. But there are no more jungles where it never rains (it never rained in a Jungle Jim movie). Today we have tropical rain forests. Jungle Green is no longer a color. One of my wife's two cousins (I...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    I agree and I love your expression "Professional Patriots." It's up there with professional veterans. The thing about personal stories is a reflection that the war itself (WWII, that is) is further and further in the past. So much has happened since then that overrides what happened then...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Well, I was actually thinking more along the lines of neighborhood gossip, where it counts the most. I doubt anybody ever had to leave New York because of a bad reputation, much less Chicago. But your small town? You have to watch it! But since I have a relative who recently retired from the...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Most of the time, an accusation is as good as a conviction, although it usually won't get you sent to prison. But under some circumstances, it might be wise to move to a different town. It doesn't always work, of course, depended on who is being accused and of what. It still boils down to the...
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    9mm or 45cal

    The theory from the French standpoint was that the assault was the spirit of battle or something like that. The German viewpoint was that no one could stand up to a determined full-frontal assault. Only the British thought otherwise. Their army was smaller and they couldn't afford to waste their...
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    9mm or 45cal

    That would be a slight exaggeration.
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    9mm or 45cal

    There were futile charges in both world wars, not to mention the Civil War. The worst was probably in WWI, especially by the Germans and the French. They mowed one another down with machine guns and artillery.
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    MA-1 Flight jacket

    So do I.
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    MA-1 Flight jacket

    I thought skinheads (rockers) wore hobnailed ankle boots. Or are they too hard to find these days?
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    9mm or 45cal

    I once actually met a gentleman (about 30 some years ago) who served in the Polish army as a cavalryman in 1939. He had also ridden in the 1936 Olympics. It was at a Christmas party at the home of another gentleman who took part in the last mounted operation of the British Army in Palestine. He...
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    9mm or 45cal

    Oh, I thought you only had to come close with a .45. On a more serious note, however, it is interesting that more than one army in WWII used .380 pistols and they had all had way more combat experience than both of us put together.
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Ninety percent of soldiers probably don't either.
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    Weapons in the Movies

    That is what guns are for, after all. In old movies, however, someone would hand the wounded man a pistol and go off and leave him. Churchill remarked on how easy it was to kill a man.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There was a time, of course, when women did not cut their hair, which I guess changed sometime not long after WWI. But they didn't wear it "down." It was always worn "up" after reaching adulthood, at the same time the skirt hem went down from the knee to the ankle. The expression was "hair piled...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Supposedly in the movie "Saving Private Ryan," some reenactors got to play German soldiers and the first thing the film crew did was to give them short haircuts, which was historically incorrect. You can't win.
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Getting behind a trash can is concealment, but not necessarily cover (but there are some stout trashcans out there). Occasionally in a movie there will be a scene with people cleaning weapons, generally (I assume) as an excuse for people to sit and talk to one another in an action movie. There's...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've always maintained that getting hairstyles period correct in the movies for both men and women seemed to be next to impossible and for several reasons. For one thing, getting the actors to grow their hair longer or to cut it shorter is probably not an easy thing to have done. And then, I...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My next door neighbor in the 1950s (who died around 1970, I think) was one of those who regularly visited a hairdresser. I say hairdresser because I'm not sure where she went. But she was also the sort who wore a dress all the time and when she went "uptown" (which was two blocks away and she...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I'm still not bad about remembering numbers, numbers being my daily bread, but people's names are another matter. If I don't see them in print, I really have trouble remembering them.

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