Another Time and a Different Country

MikeP · 08-01-2015, 03:49 PM

I was a about those kids age-born in 47.
I had a pretty neat set of Hop Along Cassidy six shooters and lots of others.
There was a belt buckle that had a cap firing derringer which swung out and fired when you pulled the cord.
Yes a lot of us got to go kill "Viet Cong." NVA regulars, as well.
Just as all generations till then, military service was an obligation and part of the social contract we were born under.
My father got to kill Nazis as part of the 506th PIR and my grandfather killed Huns in France in 1918.
Most of my generation did our civic duty and fulfilled that obligation when called.
It's how we were raised.

As a senior in high school, I drug about a dozen WW2 weapons I had already collected including a BYF 41 Luger, Nambus, Garand and others, into my science class as a project.
Nobody batted an eye, I got a "A," and a couple leads.

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08-01-2015, 03:49 PM	#1
MikeP User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ILL Posts: 686 Thanks: 36 Thanked 452 Times in 198 Posts	I was a about those kids age-born in 47. I had a pretty neat set of Hop Along Cassidy six shooters and lots of others. There was a belt buckle that had a cap firing derringer which swung out and fired when you pulled the cord. Yes a lot of us got to go kill "Viet Cong." NVA regulars, as well. Just as all generations till then, military service was an obligation and part of the social contract we were born under. My father got to kill Nazis as part of the 506th PIR and my grandfather killed Huns in France in 1918. Most of my generation did our civic duty and fulfilled that obligation when called. It's how we were raised. As a senior in high school, I drug about a dozen WW2 weapons I had already collected including a BYF 41 Luger, Nambus, Garand and others, into my science class as a project. Nobody batted an eye, I got a "A," and a couple leads.