[CTS] Re: Back to School ?
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:56:37 -0500
OOPS that should be corrected - IIRC he said Lindergh ran air mail before
that and went to Chanute Field for actual military air corps pilot
training....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Russ Blakeman
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:38 PM
> To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [CTS] Re: Back to School ?
>
>
> My dad was born 11/32, he was also about 8 when Pearl was bombed. My
> grandfather on my mom's side, before he lost it to alzeihmer's, could tell
> me all kinds of odd stuff about the turn of the century (19th to
> 20th) as he
> was born 1894 and was almmost drafted for WWI but managed to volunteer and
> get a cushy job in Chicago at Navy Pier when it was still an active Naval
> post.
>
> A guy I worked with at Plattsburgh NY would tell me about the base we went
> to for tech training - Chanute (was field, then AFB, now closed
> and public)
> in IL. Seems he was one of those people that had a parent that was older
> when he was concieved (his dad remarried after being widowed -
> MUCH younger
> wife) and seems his dad was at Chanute Field back when they did flying
> training and it seems Mr Charles Lindbergh was going through air
> mail pilot
> training in a biplane at Chanute at the same time. He was by no
> means famous
> then but everybody knew each other and once Lindberg had the notariaty as
> well as the misfortune with their son, he would write just to
> keep in touch.
> The guy I worked with had a photo of his dad and Lindberg and a
> coupel other
> GI's back at Chanute - pretty cool.
>
> The older man that showed us the property my parents bought out
> here back in
> 72, who was 88 then and still hiking the woods better than us 15 yr olds,
> would tell us about the area in years past and his father was a Civil War
> soldier, CSA, at age 15.
>
> Weird how the world has changed - people can't even sit in their
> back yards
> on a summer day without passing out yet as little time as back in 66 I
> remember when air conditioners were just starting to become a normal thing
> in Chicago in my neighborhood of working class folks. Color TV was just
> affordable about 62 or 63 yet most stations still broadcasted in
> BW. People
> in my grandparents era married and had businesses or farms or worked 60 to
> 80 hrs a week, had kids, etc starting at age 14, now you can't
> get your kid
> to leave at 24...
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cuffy
> > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:13 PM
> > To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [CTS] Re: Back to School ?
> >
> >
> > Almost !
> > I was in the service when my great grandfather died at the age of 95. It
> > didn't seem terribly important at the time but my great grandfather was
> > 6 years old when Lincoln signed The Emancipation Proclamation. All I
> > ever talked to him about was hunting and fishing. when I should have
> > been absorbing some first hand knowledge about the trying times during
> > the Civil War. When he died they were training me to fight in another
> > war, the Korean War, and I was 8 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
> > Three wars later I thought I had things pretty well cleaned up.
> > Then Russ shows up and starts the vicious cycle all over again !
> > Thirteen, 48 or 50 stars and we seem to be still fighting the same
> > battle. Keep it flying o'er the land of the free !
> >
> > And I can point out Nebraska now !
> >
> > ===================================
> >
> >
> > Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
> >
> > >What are you talking about, he still displays the one with 13 stars on
> > >it! ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > >On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:24:46 -0500, "Russ Blakeman"
> > <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx> took time to say the following:
> > >
> > >RB> You're the one we should be talking about it no longer being
> > 48 and that
> > >RB> Hawaii and Alaska are now states LOL. Fold that flag you
> > have up three
> > >RB> cornered the right way and go buy a new one Joe... (big poop
> > eating grin)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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