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Originally Posted by OtinG
Are you really that old? No offense intended of course. To be clear, my parents were of “The Greatest Generation” so named by Tom Brokaw, born in the Great Depression, fought in and/or lived through WWII. It still amazes me how we went from horse and buggie in my grandparents’s day to walking on the Moon in my parents day to sitting on our metaphorical butts in my day! Woodstock must have screwed us up too much! Obviously the Tommy Chong method of engineering and innovation doesn’t work, unless you are designing a bong.  |
I missed the Apollo 11 landing because I was in the US Navy, underway on a submarine. We didn't have television on submarines in those days.
I was in the crews bunkroom of my first submarine, USS Chivo, SS-341 (yes it was a WWII era diesel powered submarine) when President Kennedy was assassinated, nearly six years earlier.
My son and his wife visited here in Hawaii last summer, and we toured the USS Bowfin memorial. I stared talking about the different aspects of the ship and literally drew a crowd. I don't think anyone there actually knew anyone who had served on one of those boats.
So I'm a tween, too young for the Greatest Generation and too old to be a boomer. I was born during the war, but remember nothing of it.