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1977. Elvis died. Bing Crosby died. Carter pardoned the Vietnam draft evaders..........
 
1981 - a crapload of people were either assassinated or were wounded as a result of an assassination attempt.
AIDS is first identified
Ghana has a coup.
MTV is born (the end of Western culture)

Eventful year.
 
Gorbachev took over 4 days before I was born.

After seeing the KGB headquarters and gas chamber in Vilnius, I'm quite glad that the Cold War ended so soon after I was born.

Modern-day terrorists don't scare me - I have an exponentially higher chance of dying by a car, or of heart disease than ever being in a terror attack. It must have been REALLY scary knowing those psychos had nukes aimed at you for half a century!
 
1942

1942
Nazi leaders attend the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "final solution to the Jewish question," the systematic genocide of Jews known as the Holocaust.

Declaration of United Nations is signed in Washington.

More than 120,000 Japanese and persons of Japanese ancestry living in western U.S. moved to "relocation centers," some for the duration of the war (Executive Order 9066).
Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston kills 491. Background: Fires and Explosions
Women's military services established.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, first health maintenance organization (HMO), begins in Oakland, Calif.

The first safe self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is accomplished by Erico Fermi, Edward Teller and Leo Szilard at the University of Chicago.
Harvard University chemist Louis F. Fieser invents napalm, a jelly-like mixture of gasoline and palm oils that sticks to its target until it burns out.
Radar comes into operational use.
The U.S. government establishes the Manhattan Project, led by Robert Oppenheimer, to coordinate ongoing American efforts to design and build the atomic bomb.

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1935. Same birthday year as Elvis. He got famous before me (I am a great fan except for most of the films) but he has left the building, whereas I am still rocking hard. When I was first in LA Hank Williams was the big noise.
 
Very Well Redneck, like it was yesterday. The London blitz, my home recieved a direct hit, which took it out of the street like a tooth extraction. My next home was destroyed WITH the whole street by a parachute land mine.

I was evacuated without my folks at just 4 years to a village in Somerset, at the farm home of the village blacksmith and carpenter. I was friends with, and met daily over long periods, the guys at the Canadian army camp, the segregrated black American units (great guys) and of course the white American units, who used to feed me in the canteen, and i took them a yesterday's newspaper. Fantastic times. These guys were waiting for D-Day and they were here to rescue me and save my life. I never forgot that, ever. I remember them well. I was away from my home and family from 4-9 years, so you can understand why I am always prepared to stand alone for what I believe is right. And why I love America.
 
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Very Well Redneck, like it was yesterday. The London blitz, my home recieved a direct hit, which took it out of the street like a tooth extraction. My next home was destroyed WITH the whole street by a parachute land mine.

I was evacuated without my folks at just 4 years to a village in Somerset, at the farm home of the village blacksmith and carpenter. I was friends with, and met daily over long periods, the guys at the Canadian army camp, the segregrated black American units (great guys) and of course the white American units, who used to feed me in the canteen, and i took them a yesterday's newspaper. Fantastic times. These guys were waiting for D-Day and they were here to rescue me and save my life. I never forgot that, ever. I remember them well. I was away from my home and family from 4-9 years, so you can understand why I am always prepared to stand alone for what I believe is right. And why I love America.
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God, I'm glad guys like you are still blessing us with your longevity. I was fortunate to know a lot of WWII vets and I am richer for it.

And, TI, I saw Patton in a drive-in theater, I wish those were still around.
 
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Del Boy said:
Very Well Redneck, like it was yesterday. The London blitz, my home recieved a direct hit, which took it out of the street like a tooth extraction. My next home was destroyed WITH the whole street by a parachute land mine.

I was evacuated without my folks at just 4 years to a village in Somerset, at the farm home of the village blacksmith and carpenter. I was friends with, and met daily over long periods, the guys at the Canadian army camp, the segregrated black American units (great guys) and of course the white American units, who used to feed me in the canteen, and i took them a yesterday's newspaper. Fantastic times. These guys were waiting for D-Day and they were here to rescue me and save my life. I never forgot that, ever. I remember them well. I was away from my home and family from 4-9 years, so you can understand why I am always prepared to stand alone for what I believe is right. And why I love America.
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You and your story kinda reminds me of the movie, "Empire of the Sun" with young Christopher Bale beside the Japanese and "POW" camps. heh
 
I was born in November of 1944

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-World Events-
Allies invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6). Background: Normandy campaign
Bretton Woods Conference creates International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Dumbarton Oaks Conference—U.S., British Commonwealth, and U.S.S.R. propose establishment of United Nations.
Battle of the Bulge begins as Germans penetrate Allied front in Belgium (Dec. 16 to Jan. 1945).
Anne Frank and her family betrayed and sent to concentration camps. She will die in 1945.

President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: Henry A. Wallace
Population: 138,397,345

U.S. Events
FDR is reelected, beating Republican challenger Thomas Dewey. Background: Presidential Elections, 1789–1996
GI Bill of Rights is passed, providing benefits for armed-service veterans.
 
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1978.

`April Revolution` in Afghanistan, were Mohammad Daud was downed and socialists under Nur-Muhammad Taraki and Hafizulla Amin took power. Only thing which I could remember in my mind, without additional sources...
 
Fox said:
You and your story kinda reminds me of the movie, "Empire of the Sun" with young Christopher Bale beside the Japanese and "POW" camps. heh
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I keep promising myself that as soon as I can get my old black and white pictures of pre WW11 & WW11 I will post them on here for interest. With my mum at outbreak, in a tin helmet in the backyard of one of the houses that were destroyed, my uncle Fred with mates under the big guns of HMS HOOD etc.


' Empire of the Sun' - I've always somehow missed that film, but we did sometimes have Italian POWs working in our village fields, under escort. I knew a number of guys who spent 5 years in Jap POW camps, like my WO11 boss in the army, and we had folk like a mother in Birmingham who lost FOUR sons in those camps. I can tell you that the WW11 Japs were well and truly hated here.

Someone on this forum once wondered why they never seemed these days to get such a bad press as the Germans, and the answer of course, lies in the retribution of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Somehow that would appear to bring about closure to an extent.
 
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