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hunter

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3. Some older looking students in that Volkswagen bug!

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Sun Jan 17, 2016, 01:01 PM

Jan 2016

Veterans enjoying their education benefits?

(Smoking may be playing some small part too...)

Both my dad and my wife's dad had a large portion of their university education paid for in return for their military service.

They were smokers too, although both quit many decades ago, deciding they didn't want their children to smoke.

I think this PSA from 1967 was a big deal:

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Some older looking students in that Volkswagen bug! hunter Jan 2016 #3

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