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monmouth4

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3. Those were terrible days....n/t

Reply to Faygo Kid (Original post)

Sun May 3, 2015, 04:33 PM

May 2015

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Where were you on May 4, 1970? [View all] Faygo Kid May 2015 OP

Kicking the crap out of my mother's ribs. ScreamingMeemie May 2015 #1

Interesting, my father and I were actually in a brawl, I took a few shots to my ribs... HereSince1628 May 2015 #25

Vietnam war madokie May 2015 #2

Those were terrible days....n/t monmouth4 May 2015 #3

A grad student at UW-Madison, a bit more than a year out of the Army. Jackpine Radical May 2015 #4

Watching my 6th grade teacher cry while arguing with 3 teachers orpupilofnature57 May 2015 #5

I was a freshman in high school ohheckyeah May 2015 #6

I was 13 hifiguy May 2015 #7

I was 13 too, living near Cleveland ... Auggie May 2015 #28

I remember doing a double-take when reading the headline in the Stars & Stripes Skittles May 2015 #40

Senior in high school ready to take to the streets. JEB May 2015 #8

Wasn't even a stem cell yet. True Blue Door May 2015 #9

7 yrs from being born giftedgirl77 May 2015 #10

Eating lunch in the messhall angryvet May 2015 #11

Whites have rioted, cwydro May 2015 #12

Don't remember that date exactly, sadoldgirl May 2015 #13

I was on Interstate 75 on my way to Detroit... kentuck May 2015 #14

Thanks for your service, and to all those similarly posting here. Faygo Kid May 2015 #18

Just out of college and working to make a few bucks before the draft notice came. Elwood P Dowd May 2015 #15

In uniform just ahead of the draft, completely horrified. JohnnyLib2 May 2015 #16

High school chemistry class musette_sf May 2015 #17

I was graduating High School Caretha May 2015 #19

Langely Virginia. Staying with the neighbors. My brother was born May 1, 1970. That may have been okaawhatever May 2015 #20

8th grade being bullied around by a weird group of girls marlakay May 2015 #21

2nd grade, ~ 15 miles north of you etherealtruth May 2015 #22

A sparkle in my Aerows May 2015 #23

Almost 2 months old....eating, sleeping, crying... ileus May 2015 #24

I was looking forward to spending summer days swimming and bike riding Art_from_Ark May 2015 #26

At school in the 2nd grade. Go Vols May 2015 #27

About to wind up my freshman year at college. That made a big impression on me. raccoon May 2015 #29

In third grade mainstreetonce May 2015 #30

I don't recall. I was 9 months old. smokey nj May 2015 #31

Organizing for a national student strike at Portland State University. former9thward May 2015 #32

About to graduate from high school. kaiden May 2015 #33

I was living in Turkey less than a year before terrorists kidnapped my teacher's boyfriend there... cascadiance May 2015 #34

In the 9th grade vankuria May 2015 #35

Going to community college while working at the Post Office. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2015 #36

not totally sure, but I believe I was deeply involved in a protest on the U of Iowa campus rurallib May 2015 #37

Senior in college dumbcat May 2015 #38

In my mother's arms AwakeAtLast May 2015 #39

I was a junior in high school... MrMickeysMom May 2015 #41

In France as a student exchange TA in English burrowowl May 2015 #42

In school at Great Lakes about to become a corpsman. GreatCaesarsGhost May 2015 #43

In an Army hospital in San Francisco pinboy3niner May 2015 #44