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If I could go back in time I'd choose 1969. (Original Post)
mobeau69
Mar 2024
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Silent Type
(12,412 posts)1. Great song and album from the 60s.
mobeau69
(12,465 posts)2. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes w/Stephen Stills in the video. ❤️
walkingman
(11,162 posts)3. If you were able to avoid the draft...those days were magical.
mobeau69
(12,465 posts)5. College deferment then lottery #9! Yikes! Kept postponing my induction
then eventually moved me down on the list because the war was winding down ahead of the draft boards. They had no place to put us. Still have that letter. 😎. It was close.
marble falls
(72,543 posts)4. '67! Or even '66.
mobeau69
(12,465 posts)6. That's when the shit was really going on in Nam.
But yeah, great music too.
Shermann
(9,072 posts)7. This pleases Bryan Adams! nt
mobeau69
(12,465 posts)8. "Those were the best days of my life..."
Walleye
(45,490 posts)9. Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then
mobeau69
(12,465 posts)11. Ain't that the truth, Walleye!
Fichefinder
(443 posts)10. I was 13
Young and dumb and full of you know what!😂
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