Missing the 1960's

Discussion in 'In The Stands' started by WorsterMan, Dec 15, 2020.

  1. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    how could it be?
     
  2. everette

    everette 250+ Posts

    Several of my classmates died over there. I got my draft notice a year after I was in the navy.
     
  3. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    My 3 oldest brothers were born 56-58. I think the oldest had a high draft number and didn’t have to worry. I remember the family dropping him off at college his first year in 1974. I don’t recall any tension (more like the opposite). Amazing how a few years made all the difference.
     
  4. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    2nd oldest brother born March 30, 1957 and 3rd oldest born July 15, 1958.


    Men born from March 29, 1957 through December 31, 1959, were not required to register with the Selective Service System because the registration program was suspended when they would have reached age 18. The requirement to register with Selective Service was reinstated in 1980, but only for men born January 1, 1960, or later.
     
  5. LousianaHorn

    LousianaHorn Kabong

    my 18th Birthday January of 1974 I still had to register even though they had quit drafting by then.
     
  6. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    My junior high band director, Richard Bales, went to Vietnam as a 2nd Lt. and was a Captain by the time he came home. I never knew he had earned a Bronze Star until I read his obituary in 2009. He was a very cheerful guy and the last person I would have picked to be the great American warrior. He later became a Methodist minister.
     
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  7. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Perhaps not the best way to phrase it. Beyond the terrible loss and grief that would last for years and years, his death fractured the family in many other ways I won't go into. That is what I was thinking when I stated never the same.
     
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