Do You Remember When? (2)

[Springrain]

Jim, I guess the nature of the subject makes it difficult for you to tell the story of how it was in Korea. I would love to hear it if you think you could find words to phrase it that would use any language that would hange up the Robot.

The worst I have ever heard or seeen were the quit discriptive (photos included) of the Christian women held prisoner in the early days of Afganistan War. It wasnt too great but they managed and was better than the weeds.

 

[Springrain]

B
My memories take me back to a cousine's farm 1950's

Being a city girl with country relatives, I was privelaged to make a summer visit for a week or two at their farm. I enjoyed all but the outhouse. My cousine was a boy with a BB Gun...when I got tired of being shot with his gun...I would run to the outhouse to hide. YUCK!!!! Thats desperation.

 

[bcauser]

My Mom had one of these for years.

And now they are like this and even newer.

 

[Bevlina]

My memories take me back to when the roosters used to chase me around the yard.

 

[bcauser]

What was your graduation day like??
My color was blue(we were the Blue Devils) We graduated at night and it was a full house. My class was the largest graduating class the school had ever had,83, now they are much larger. The carnival was in town and I remember we all went there and they let us ride for free. Great night I think we all made ourselves sick.
Share you memories all
Bless
B

 

[Bevlina]

We don't have Graduation Day in Australia, we just left school and remember the echo of the big iron gates behind us as we closed them for the last time.

 

[bcauser]

We don't have Graduation Day in Australia, we just left school and remember the echo of the big iron gates behind us as we closed them for the last time.

Oh wasn't that kind of a let down? Did you have a party any where? Something?
Bless
B

 

[nanajojothatsme]

We don't have Graduation Day in Australia, we just left school and remember the echo of the big iron gates behind us as we closed them for the last time.

boy that is sad !!

 

[Springrain]

Unfortunately...the celebration of Graduation tended to give the impression that something had ended as if you went out into the world and nothing further was expected. I say...that was because elementary and secondary education was free and college was not. Perhaps we need to end the graduation celebration and put more emphasis on going on to college but it seems to me that the state of mind of teenagers at that age need the attention and goal achievment. For some it is a difficult four years.

 

[Bevlina]

Oh wasn't that kind of a let down? Did you have a party any where? Something?
Bless
B

Nope, no parties. It was just like another day really!
But, it was a huge day filled with an emptiness inside for each of us as we all went our separate ways.

We kept in touch for a long time though.

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

We had the high school prom and then a graduation party to, but most of the kids knew they were going to college so it was like a going away party.

 

[Mickey1953]

boy took a bath once a week??? and you still married him just like 'Little House on the Prairie" did they use the outhouse till 63?? oh my,
thanks for sharing
Bless
B

We met later on in life, but when I was his age in another part of Michigan.... I was an Italian city girl whose mother insisted one bath a week was healthier for the skin so most of my young to almost teen years.... I only bathed one day a week also....

I started taking baths every day when I hit high school...
(after I learned from others it was better for odor
control...)
The funny thing about it, my daughters say I have nice skin for my age (54) and my mom who lives with me, does too - and she is in her 80's.....

I also remembered my mom would give my sister and I baths in a laundry tub.... (this is not us)

though the mom in the picture looks a little like me....

Thats me....

God bless.....Mickey

 

[Jim1927]

There was a report some years ago that we bathe too much and wash away the good bacteria on the body, and that is why so many suffer so many illnesses.

I grew up with one bath a week also. This did not rule out washing each day. In the early days, I had two older sisters and guess who got the bath water first?

When I was in Korea, even a weekly bath would have been nice. Sometimes we didn't even get to change clothes once a week,,,unless we didn't mind a few bullets or bombs,,,,,,,,

Cheers,

Jim

 

[bcauser]

We met later on in life, but when I was his age in another part of Michigan.... I was an Italian city girl whose mother insisted one bath a week was healthier for the skin so most of my young to almost teen years.... I only bathed one day a week also....

I started taking baths every day when I hit high school...
(after I learned from others it was better for odor
control...)
The funny thing about it, my daughters say I have nice skin for my age (54) and my mom who lives with me, does too - and she is in her 80's.....

I also remembered my mom would give my sister and I baths in a laundry tub.... (this is not us)

though the mom in the picture looks a little like me....

Thats me....

God bless.....Mickey

oh you're sooo pretty, thanks for sharing,
Bless
B

 

[Mickey1953]

Thank you....

When I found that picture - I thought - the mom looked like me...

My neighbor's Dad was in Korea - tough kind of guy but very likeable......and my Dad was in WWII..
I cannot begin to imagine what it was like.... my Dad has lots of pictures and even the black and white pictures show lots of dirt and poverty....(He was in India as a medic)
and great saddness....Those things are now old treasures of a sort. One thing I remember; peeking in a dresser drawer I was told to stay out of ..... a knife that curved like a cresent moon....just in my memory. And big...but small enough to be stored in the dresser.

My brother inherited my Dad's uniform.... I tried it on once.... could not fit in it My dad was a small man. I had always remembered him as huge to me ...
and my brother received many of his wartime things, now antiques - after his death. Have a great day! I have to leave for work....

God bless you
Mickey

 

[bcauser]

Thank you....

When I found that picture - I thought - the mom looked like me...

My neighbor's Dad was in Korea - tough kind of guy but very likeable......and my Dad was in WWII..
I cannot begin to imagine what it was like.... my Dad has lots of pictures and even the black and white pictures show lots of dirt and poverty....(He was in India as a medic)
and great saddness....Those things are now old treasures of a sort. One thing I remember; peeking in a dresser drawer I was told to stay out of ..... a knife that curved like a cresent moon....just in my memory. And big...but small enough to be stored in the dresser.

My brother inherited my Dad's uniform.... I tried it on once.... could not fit in it My dad was a small man. I had always remembered him as huge to me ...
and my brother received many of his wartime things, now antiques - after his death. Have a great day! I have to leave for work....

God bless you
Mickey

Again thanks so much for sharing all of that. My Dad to in world war two. I got to keep his flag when he passed in 05. He was in Navy and his uniform is quite small but I always thought of him large(bigger than life).

old army uniform

navy uniform



air force uniforms




marines

 

[Bevlina]

What fabulous photo's b!! My Dad was in WW2 also. I still have some of the things he used while in there. My Favorite is his Army Hat Badge.

 

[Savedsis]

Again thanks so much for sharing all of that. My Dad to in world war two. I got to keep his flag when he passed in 05. He was in Navy and his uniform is quite small but I always thought of him large(bigger than life).

old army uniform

navy uniform



air force uniforms




marines

B my dad was in World War 11 as well....That is a great picture....

 

[bcauser]

staying with our service theme

very dear to me had a brother that was missing and found out later killed in Nam

 

[Ariel]

Jim, you were in Korea? My dad was there, too. He was killed at the Chosin Reservoir November, 1950....I was born in April, 1951. I never knew him.

I have been trying to put together a picture of his life. I finally was able to post some of the info at a memorial site sponsored by a group in Colorado who are building a memorial. I just wish I had known him, in part because I think I see a lot of him in one of his grandsons--the one named for him.

Well, going on. I remember the days of one bath a week, too. Until I got to high school!

My husband remembers bathing in the kitchen with water warmed up on the stove--and an outhouse out back. He grew up near Waynesburg, Pa., and went to a one-room school. The teacher had grades one to six.

I grew up with plumbing in my mom's house in Aurora, Colorado. Then we went to Germany to visit my grandparents (my mom was a German war bride who met this young American officer in Salzburg, Austria). No modern plumbing there! But wow, could my grandmother cook!