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What Year Would You Return to for a Vacation (or forever if you choose)
Self | July 9, 2012 | Madison10

Posted on 07/09/2012 7:04:08 AM PDT by madison10

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To: 98ZJ USMC

LOL

True...


41 posted on 07/09/2012 9:14:38 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: moonshot925

“In 1962 we had to deal with the Soviet Union who was installing SS-4 IRBMs in Cuba. It was a dangerous time.”

Precisely. I want to see the US when it was a strong country capable and willing to meet any threat, all the way to nuclear war. I also want to see the US when people could leave their doors unlocked, etc. Like I said, I want to see the US at its height- not in decline as it has been in my lifetime.


42 posted on 07/09/2012 9:18:23 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: madison10

1957 ,,,, post Korea ,, economy looking good ,, rock and roll a big hit , 57 chevy , pre-Kennedy/Johnson , America is #1 producer in the world .


43 posted on 07/09/2012 9:21:34 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 (-: Socialism is the equal distribution of misery :-)
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To: Chuzzlewit

Is it normal to have so many childhood friends die before they reach retirement age? We had four kids from our church die before they reached 21. This last death hit me pretty hard because we knew her so well for so many years and last year when I was home, we were talking about the fact that so many of the kids had died and another one had just been diagnosed with breast cancer.


44 posted on 07/09/2012 9:27:54 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Chuzzlewit

Is it normal to have so many childhood friends die before they reach retirement age? We had four kids from our church die before they reached 21. This last death hit me pretty hard because we knew her so well for so many years and last year when I was home, we were talking about the fact that so many of the kids had died and another one had just been diagnosed with breast cancer.


45 posted on 07/09/2012 9:28:07 AM PDT by Eva
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To: libertarian27

I agree with you. 1976 was a great time, especially the summer for the 20 year-old kid I was.


46 posted on 07/09/2012 10:31:07 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: Eva

‘’Is it normal to have so many childhood friends die before the reach retirement age’’.< Ordinarily no but it depends on the circumstances. I’ve given up on the number of old classmates and childhood friends I’ve lost in the last twenty years, most were barley in their fifties. A lot were from stupid choices like drugs and booze. Sad to think of the lives wasted and the potential lost.


47 posted on 07/09/2012 10:37:53 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: Eva

my generation passing in late 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Grandparents late 80’s, uncles and aunts—some hit 90 and 95.
I think it strange that those who fried food in lard and ate tons of butter far outlived those who didn’t.


48 posted on 07/09/2012 12:32:55 PM PDT by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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To: madison10

1905. Vienna.

I would act out the cliche and stalk and kill Hitler then return to see what difference it made.

(Despite the fact that my parents probably never would have met, I believe I would still survive as an “orphaned artifact of a now non-existent time-line”. And despite the fact that no other human but me would know whether or not I had made a difference in world history, I would still like to give this a try.)


49 posted on 07/09/2012 12:39:47 PM PDT by samtheman (The Trillion Dollar ObamaCareTax definitely is a tax; just ask the US Supreme Court.)
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To: samtheman
I would act out the cliche and stalk and kill Hitler then return to see what difference it made.

Probably a Soviet-dominated Europe.

50 posted on 07/09/2012 12:40:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: dfwgator

Possibly. But remember, only I would remember the time-line where Hitler had lived and caused WWII. None of the rest of you would even know what I had done. And if I tried to tell you, you’d lock me up in a looney bin.


51 posted on 07/09/2012 12:45:54 PM PDT by samtheman (The Trillion Dollar ObamaCareTax definitely is a tax; just ask the US Supreme Court.)
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To: samtheman

Odds are, if it wasn’t for the Nazis, it would have been Thaelmann and the Communists that would have destroyed the Weimar Republic, and imposed their own dictatorship over Germany.


52 posted on 07/09/2012 12:48:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: Taffini

That’s exactly what I meant. My friend who died last week of lymphoma, had just buried her own mother a year ago and she was 93, Fran died at 62.


53 posted on 07/09/2012 5:09:17 PM PDT by Eva
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