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The 'One'

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 29 Sep 19

I read a post the other day from Julie55 in which she explained that she knew her husband was 'the one' when she saw how kind he was to animals. (Link at bottom of post) This got me thinking about my own husband. I remember him...

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Attack by the Friendlies

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 16 Oct 16

Attack by the Friendlies - Now that I have become one of those old-timers, it is OK for me to think back to a time when I was not yet at such a lamentable stage. I thought back to a memorable day in 1959 or so to when the U.S...

82nd airborne division

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geronimo

brothertuck @brothertuck (1257) • United States 8 Sep 09

In 1940, the night before their first mass jump, U.S. paratroopers at Fort Benning watched the 1939 film Geronimo, in which the actor playing Geronimo yells his name as he leaps from a high cliff into a river, depicting a...

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The Army Taught Me How To Kill...

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 31 Dec 07

I wasn't a combat soldier when I served as a parachute rigger. In fact, anyone who died at my hand would have been a fellow U.S. Paratrooper. Yet, just knowing what I knew about parachutes and Army procedures taught me how to use...

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