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ROFL BOX

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  1. Continued poking around & in the bottom drawer, I discovered all of this in the bottom drawer.

    It is 0143 as I am tapping this out - barely through 25% of the pics, all so far are centered around WWII, E.T.O. & mostly Paris-centric (my Mom's adoptive father was in the P.T.O. doing administrative work & was a "3-Up" Sergeant). The focus for most of these pics is a Captain & it is difficult to make out some of the faces (esp. when I am using my phone to snap quick reproductions).

    There will be a LOT of consecutive pics; I only snapped quick shots of the ones that would probably be of interest to y'all. Some I have found in as much as quadruplicate, a decent % as duplicates. More than a couple are humorous (you'll see...).

    Most posted without commentary & where there was notation written on the reverse, I am following that up immediately with the back of the pic.

    One minor headache with TapaTalk is it wont let you put a space or gap in between a set of pics (front of pic, reverse... space... nect pic).

    Also, I have ZERO idea who the subjects are, with one exception, name of "Cuberley" on a photo's backside caption. The Cuberley name is my family connection to the Civil War & my Grandmother's membership in the United Daughters of the Confederacy (which makes me immediately eligible for membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, something I willingly decline).

    Nana did a LOT of genealogy work as part of her UDC activities & the Cuberly name was well known to us / didn't show up through recent research.

    Now on to some photos.bd15df68da2baee671855bf2c96e511c.jpg

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  2. My son will get my father’s flag from his coffin, all of his medals, and his wedding ring. The ring is like the ring in Pulp Fiction to me. It’s the one thing I have to know where it is. I wore it for many years before I got too fat for it to fit.

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    I have not had this conversation with my brother, however when my stepmother passes I want 3 things:

    - The flag that was draped on the coffin when Dad was interred @ Arlington National Cemetery.
    - Dad's Scouter uniform.
    - Judy's '64½ Mustang that she has owned for 56 years (straight 6).

    There is a good possibility my brother would get their house if she were to pass while living there... don't really know what her intentions are.

    *Something tells me neither me or my brother are in the running for the Mustang.

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  3. Dad: Because they wear clown costumes.

    Kid: Why would clown costumes stop them from eating each other?

    Dad: It makes them taste funny.
    #DadJoke

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  4. Cleaning out stuff @ my Mom's & cane across this.

     

    I fondly & very vividly recall this on the wall @ my Grandparents house in the kitchen. Papa would wake us grandkids up with the smell of bacon & coffee.

     

    & Such a SMALL kitchen that was - prob. 1,100² for the whole house & they raised 2 kids there. Dinky by today's standards & I would gladly live there if I could (however I would have to live in the Shreveport area, so that's actually a dealbreaker).

     

    Access to hundreds to thousands of acres (SwepCo directly off the "bottom" side), a pond that always had fish, 6 stall barn, reasonable hunting potential... everything a man needs, really.

     

    After breakfast where used that match case to strike off for a fire, he would hand my brother the .22 & a large box of shorties (he's15 months older, so... seniority for a 10 year old vs. 8 year me). Without even the slightest hint of "Be careful" spoken, we were off to pop turtles & then dig worms from his old porcelain bathtub with the plywood top... head down to the ⅓ acre pond & drown worms.

     

    I have some other stuff to get pics of & will add those to the thread later.

     

    Now show us yours & explain the provenance.b2a08258e274339ef7b6fd6481b6e198.jpg3a551577ace08ce4f9a6d385a54048de.jpge2daa162a2ac732c8bd4301c4190af5b.jpg0244ff4f12ac5b6cfc818c48bc46f046.jpgebb7899568136e6280950c9f63f5bce0.jpg

     

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    Shit, my wife wouldn't let the kids near the gas stove until they were prob. 10 years old & even then, they were barely able to make their own PBJ.

    "Times" haven't changed, us adults have.

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