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[QUOTE="dirtbikingdad, post: 1231514, member: 64531"] Great, Great Thread!! I to considered the same thought the other day Okie. Saying "Ole Fart" as I finally got around the clog up. We get so caught up in our little lives that seem so important. WOW! Are we spoiled or what? Of course, having to wear reading glasses now, I know I am getting older. It really sucks! I often wish I had been born earlier, so I could have learned from my grandfather and valued his wonderful stories more. Having polio when he was 2, he could not go into the armed services. Instead he went into the civil air patrol and learned to fly. This all after being in the depression and gathering the entire family up and moving to Oklahoma to find work away from the Memphis area. At some point, he ran a sheet metal shop in Memphis and got work however he could. Yes, he made stills for those who would pay during the prohibition. Later he went back to construction (why he moved to Oklahoma) and eventually became a job superintendent for a large construction company here. He eventually had his own airplane and his own hanger on his own property. Which is one reason why I wished many times I was older. :) I only remember flying with him once. The sacrifices he and others like him experienced were tremendous. My generation, not so much. One thing that really got me to thinking about this, not so long ago, was Dogfights, on the History Channel. It will not be long before these "living legends" who were normal folk, who gave up so much, and knew it was their duty will not be around. We will truly be in much worse shape when this generation passes. It truly sickens me that the freedoms they fought for, the flag they died for, the families they left behind or lost lost forever, is not appreciated by a large number of the population today. The number who believe that [U]deserve[/U] a good life, the American dream, the finer things of life, the freedoms to do anything or say anything they wish, without regard to anyone else. On a more recent note that is currently on the news: What about the veteran who knew it was his duty to remove the flag of Mexico from an American post office? I didn't mean to write a book, but you happened to post something Okie that has been on my mind lately. :cool: [/QUOTE]
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