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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Everything is also complicated by the age of the individual. In fact, one could postulate yet another division of humanity by age group. We are certainly marketed to by age group. Oh, to be 70 again.
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    What Are You Reading

    Reading over some of the posts here, I feel so illiterate. But I get credit for reading a great deal more than I actually do. Most of what I do read is in the nature of research, either religious or military in nature, I am embarrassed to admit. Nevertheless, I do occasionally pause to read...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Nothing much has changed from what I can tell.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    When I was little, wearing glasses was problematic. You might be teased, which sooner or later you would have to deal with or the teasing would continue. "Four-eyes" was a common tease, for example, although really very mild. There were a lot worse things to be teased about besides the fact that...
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    9mm or 45cal

    The only time I saw a cow, which was a bull, slaughtered, a shotgun was used. It was a literal demonstration of knock down power. Mind you, when I use the expression "knock down," that's all I mean. I don't mean knocked ten feet to the rear. Anyone who argues against the expression knock down...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    My own opinion is that, these days, a four-way stop sign works just about as well as a traffic light, what with the right-turn-on-red rule, provided the traffic isn't too heavy. I think that many of the founding father's ideals were myths even when the constitution and the declaration of...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    It is also difficult to rise above the contemporary political and social morality as is demonstrated by the fact that many of the freedom-loving founding fathers happened to own slaves. But on the other hand, their object was hardly to free the slaves but rather to create a united country...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    My own experience has been that morality and common decency are not confined to any particular social or income class. But I sometimes wonder if there is a bell-shaped curve in which those quality diminish at either end. I have serious doubts about how honest and moral the super rich really are...
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    Sprezzatura vs trying too hard.

    If looks could kill, most of us would be harmless.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    There are all kinds of stories like that, I expect. But national history, local circumstances and all sorts of other things enters into family stories. In Virginia, the shadow of the Civil War hangs over everything and it is as if that's the last time everything was turned upside down and...
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    USAAF - First Post

    Well, what can happen is that in a family, inherited objects sometimes are distributed among family members who are at least half-way interested in holding onto them and so they wind up dispersed instead of being held together. Eventually they end up being owned by someone with negative interest...
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    Sprezzatura vs trying too hard.

    Maybe we're all trying too hard. English country gentlemen generally set the standards when it comes to men's clothing and not the Italians. Just ask any Englishman! Yet one such English country squire supposedly said that when it traveled, it didn't matter what he wore because no one knew him...
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    USAAF - First Post

    Nice set of photos, also. My wife has a number of photos, some enlarged, that belonged to her father who served in the USAAF. He went in as a second lieutenant and came out as a second lieutenant. She has his flying log and I have his web belt with canteen (water bottle), first aid pouch and...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    The small town I'm referring to was the one I lived in from the time I was born until we moved away (all of about 35 miles away) at the end of 1963. That was only 17 years. There are other small towns like all over the country and I think most of them have suffered the same decline and suffered...
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    9mm or 45cal

    Well, actually I think I want a Colt first, then the .38 Super second. Would settle for a .45 automatic if the price difference were enough. I've had Colts, Springfield Armory and even an Auto-Ordnance .45. Haven't had a Remington or Ruger. Pretty sure only a Colt will satisfy. The Colt might...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Another thing about small towns is the presence of characters. They are part of the community, although that is not to say you would necessarily interact with them. If at all possible, you would avoid them. My hometown had one such individual. His name was Claude Long. He went around properly...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    "Ballistic?" What does that mean? Big cities have never been thought of as good places to live, perhaps more so in Germany than anywhere else. Of course there were big cities in other countries, too, but I think that only in Germany was there a conscious effort to suggest that the big cities...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Clearly, judging from this thread, there are small towns and there are small towns. When I was little, in the 1950s, my home town had less than 8500 residents. I thought it was more. Today it only has about 6500. Of course, that's just counting people out as far as the city limits. The town...
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    9mm or 45cal

    My father died from a .22 gunshot. And around here where I live, animal control officers use a .22 rimfire rifle to kill deer.
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    9mm or 45cal

    If I can through in another two-dollar bill, I'd say the ammunition choice makes less difference than you would like. It is easy to assume away the more difficult parts of an armed encounter. It won't be anything like going to the range and shooting at a paper target hanging very still in front...

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