Oh to Be Twenty-Five Again
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
August 4, 2016 10:10am CST
Oh to Be Twenty-Five Again
Wouldn't that be fun. To have the whole world again be wide open before you. To see lots of things for the very first time. To learn some lessons you will need to remember later on...
And it can be lots of fun to be able to open the pages of one of those "memory books" produced for you when you were still in your twenties. There was that book, sitting on the shelf all of the years - 30, 40, 50, and more - just waiting for you to remember it being there - to look inside of the book once again and, there, see yourself as you were - and to see some of your old buddies whose names you may or may not even remember today.
The image above is of a page from the Station Complement book from Sampson Air Force Base back in 1954. Yes, I am on the page, as is my old buddy, Harry Brown. We were both techies in the Radiology Department. I don't know the names of the others on the page, one who worked in the eye clinic and several others in the clinical laboratory section of the hospital, then the largest hospital in the Air Force.
As we believed back then, "We may not be pretty, but we are pretty doggone good at what we do."
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
4 Aug 16
@rebelann - Funny thing is - I remember the day the book people came around and made all of the photos of our hospital section in that old memory book. I have one photo in there of my hand holding up a lead-rubber x-Ray apron to shield some lighting from the scene when they made a photo of our then boss sitting at his big bank of X-Ray film-reading lights, and another photo of our boss-sergeant pretending to have his skull X-Rayed at an X-Ray machine that had never worked for more than two years. Funny stuff, but there it all remains in that book. 
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
6 Aug 16
@jaboUK - Ms Janet - Having a good day at the racecourse means one thing for the horseies and another thing for the bettors and yet another thing for those who labor to keep the horseies and the bettors orderly. I assume that you are to be numbered among the latter group - so have a good rest.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
6 Aug 16
@jaboUK - Ms Janet - The fact is that there is no such thing as an ugly baby. Some of that sticks to them in their youth, not that they have earned such a gift. The memories seem to be attached and are usually good, and most of the time spent in medical stuff is "good" time. I had to get old before I realized how lucky I had been during those waking-up years.
As for you, kindly have some fun today. 
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
5 Aug 16
@Inlemay - I understand what you are saying, Seems like the world really became quite messed up as soon as I left the teenage times behind. From my current vantage point it does not look as though things have improved ever since, and I am now 85 years old. I have given the place lots of time, but it has not taken good advantage of my generosity. 
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