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newfie11

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5. +infinity

Reply to SamKnause (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 2, 2015, 09:07 AM

Feb 2015

Those were my thought during Vietnam and I haven't changed my mind.
My son joined the navy anyway served his time and got out. Thank God that was pre Bush.
Now I've got three grandsons and this granny is trying like hell to educate them on the MIC!

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