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electric_blue68

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20. I'll bet!....

Reply to Attilatheblond (Reply #10)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 02:11 PM

Aug 2025

While nothing like your experiences you suddenly made me remember this.

On our way to visit cousins in northern NJ waaay back in ?early - mid 60's there must have been a base somewhere on the way bc even once in a while we'd see bunches of ?Army jeeps riding in the opposite direction.

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