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The Polack MSgt

(13,445 posts)
4. I was "lucky" that I was young enough when the steel/coal economy died...
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 01:32 PM
Mar 2017

To join the Air Force and get out.

Also, my home town was not segregated and had a lot more black families than the vast majority of mill and mine towns around - So I was slightly less racist because I had friends and team mates around to moderate my attitudes. Not saying I was a Saint - I was better than average in late 70s Appalachia, which looking back, made me pretty egregiously racist...

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