Ironic that now most of those willing to fight and die, or work and serve their country are the young and lower-middle class.

Yep. It's always been that way, it seems. 

Ah well.  Only the good die young anyway.

"You might've heard I run with a dangerous crowd we ain't to pretty we ain't too proud. We might be laughin' a bit too loud but that ain't never hurt no one. Darlin' only the good die young..."

Sorry. That song popped in my head.

Ever heard the song "I Go Back"?  It references that song.

Yep. i love Kenny Chesney.

At least some women still have taste in music.

I have excellent taste in everything. 

Everything?

Uh huh. Yes, sir.

Prove it.

If you could own any car/truck/motorcycle in the world, regardless of fuel, insurance, and initial cost, what would it be?

As far as cars go... I'd just keep my '67 Hurst Olds. And trucks... I like any old truck (ford or chevy) '85 and older. I like driving a stick.

I don't care about motorcycles.

At least you have good taste in trucks!

You can be proud to be an American when you recall such people. We in Oz, have no such people or history. Our independence was legislated and we still have a british head of state and a ruling "upper class".

 

Revolution may come here one day but I doubt it. Australians are too fat, lazy and ignorant.

 

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It is nice to hear about the unknown who signed the declaration. I still can't figure out though why you were so pissed off about something as trivial as taxes. Both Canada and the USA and Australia have treated their Native Peoples far worse than the English treated any of us. Just an outsiders observation. major corporations control of our economy is far more powerful than anything Britain controlled in the states. The Acadians who ended up in Louisiana were treated far worse than the other colonies and remember we were all colonies of British North America before the revolution.

You do have a point. hahaha Usually when something like that is said in front of my grandpa he says "My people were over here waiting for you when you stepped off the damn Mayflower" haha

I love that.

I am trying to remember the Mayflower joke I saw one time with the Natives reconsidering whether to really have them for dinner or not.

In a novel by Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris the great Aboriginal Novelists "The crown of columbus", the original people are kneeling in front of the Spaniards. the Spaniards think they are bowing but the people were overcome by their stink from having been on the boat and not washing.

I remember reading about that!!! That cracks me up. haha

The natives in the caribbean bathed several times a day. The europeans did it fall and spring equinox. I think the word spring comes from Spring out of the house I can take the smell, and fall, I was going to fall over from the smell If i didn't bath. Just my theory and you know how well researched they are.

In Melanies study of history she did an essay on cleanliness and disease with a focus on Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria had a ceramic outhouse that was portable. ( I did not make this up) She was an early believer in how disease were spread and did not trust the London Sewage system because it had wooden pipes. Truth is stranger than fiction.

My mum used to call the chamber pot the "throne". I wonder if that comes from the Queen

Someday i will do a series of Clogs called Toilet Tales about outhouses.