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Wolfie... drop that picture of the Valiant with the tach mounted again. For the life of me I can't find it.

@Old man ray
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Different times. Never realized I was on the free lunch program...
Remember not having hot lunch at school and we had to bring our own brown bag. Lucky to get 1 slice of bread and peanut butter on it many times. My clothes I had was 2 pair of everything 1 for work and play and 1 set for school for the year and only washed on the weekend. I had know idea we were poor for a long time in my youth but got me a job at 12 after school to help my dad pay for what we needed.
Glad I grew up that way and have no bad feelings about being poor.
 
So what do I do when I become a married adult? Move to a lovely valley by the beach filled with farm ground that gets broccoli planted at least once during the growing cycle :rofl: I hate it when they get out them flail mowers :rofl:
 
I remember those :realcrazy: in elementary school in the desert. In my teens I found out that our area was like #3 target on the west coast for the USSR because of the Marine Corps Supply Depot
We were 4 miles from the largest and only storage facility of VX gas… not only did we have nuke drills, we had VX gas leak drills too. Not that it would have done any good. A single table spoon of that stuff vaporized into the air above Chicago would wipe out that entire city in about 15 minutes. Scary and nasty stuff that we finally “disposed of” and are “no longer holding”
 
Ha. I'm older than you and we did not do them.
The Civil Defense handbooks I picked up at a county 4H fair explained it thoroughly and succinctly.
"If you're at point of impact, you've had it"

When I find that one I'll post a photo.
Really? We did them all the way up through 3rd grade. Even after the wall fell. I remember our principal telling us that even though the Soviet Union had fell, it was still possible for them to nuke us.
 
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