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      CP wrote --   
      
   > most of my life, my best friends were 20+ years older than me (so I'd have   
   intelligence & wisdom to learn from; my peers were & are, shallow & dumb   
   *sigh*)   
      
     I always preferred to be around older people as well.    
     I have always been interested in history, and not the big stories, but   
   "what was life like" whenever.   
     Too many people think history only started when they were born.   
     While "everyone" my age was interested only in what was going on at the   
   time I was more interested in what happened before and was the cause of what   
   is.  Not just that something happened, but what brought it on.   
     As for music, I liked what was popular at the time, but also older music,   
   from the early 1900s to the (then) present.   
     Same with movies, and everything else.   
     I haven't had an interest in pop culture in many years.   
     I was reading recently about current celebs, for example, and have no   
   idea who they are other than some "mega star".   
       
   > >> You were dating a North Viet girl?   
   > > Shh, no one was supposed to know about that.  :)   
   >    
   > How's that happen? Sounds like an interesting story   
      
     That was a joke son, I say that was a joke.  :)   
      
   > *LOL*  Not your fault for choosing a branch whose training was more amenable   
   to comfort, eh?   
      
     When I got my letter from Uncle Sam and given 30 days to make up my mind   
   or have it made up for me, I thought about which branch to join.   
     I wasn't interested in the Marines, to tough and ruled them out at once.   
     I have a fear of heights so that ruled out the  Air Force.  (My brother   
   had been in the AF).   
     I wasn't interested in marching and eating beans in a rainy rice paddy so   
   that ruled out the Army.   
     I always liked the water and going places so decided on the Navy.    
   Besides, they had snappy looking uniforms.  :)   
      (AF uniforms make they all look bus drivers)   
      
   > Greatest Generation, indeed.   
   >    
   > & I'm surrounded by the "Me Generation." *sigh*   
      
     Yep, today its "all about me".  And so many of the kids today have all   
   sorts of mental and emotional problems and one dare not question them.   
      
   > I don't recall if you've said -- are you married? Have kids? Grandkids?   
      
     Nope, been lucky there.   
     I nearly got married a couple of times.     
     The first time the girl broke up with me after planning our wedding, etc.    
   I asked "Is there someone else?"  She replied "That has to be"  :)   
     I've never really cared for kids.  I can take them in small doses only.   
     I've come from a long line of bachelors and spinsters.  :)   
     Joe   
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