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1. almost 11 years ago on Pickles

   Loved you guys’ comments re: dungarees & etc.!Ok, kids, here is what I wore in Ohio in the 1940s when I was Nelson’s age: Last kid in the school to wear knickers. Corduroy knickers. My Dad (el cheapo) said “They’ll wear like iron” and bought them two sizes too big so I wore them in shame “forever”. My little brother escaped them as he wasn’t old enough. Our shoes were “clodhoppers” – high-top kids replica of the black leather work shoe. Some kids wore cleats on them for a click as they sauntered the halls at school. Dungarees. When the knees wore holes Mom would sew and later iron-on dark blue patches on the faded dungarees. Tennis shoes were always hi-top black & white. My bathing suit was wool! Shrunk some when we swam with inner tubes in the “crick”. Small town country boys.

2. almost 11 years ago on Pickles

   Ok, kids, here is what I wore in Ohio in the 1940s when I was Nelson’s age: Last kid in the school to wear knickers. Corduroy knickers. My Dad (el cheapo) said “They’ll wear like iron” and bought them two sizes too big so I wore them in shame “forever”. My little brother escaped them as he wasn’t old enough. Our shoes were “clodhoppers” – high-top kids replica of the black leather work shoe. Some kids wore cleats on them for a click as they sauntered the halls at school. Dungarees. When the knees wore holes Mom would sew and later iron-on dark blue patches on the faded dungarees. Tennis shoes were always hi-top black & white. My bathing suit was wool! Shrunk some when we swam with inner tubes in the “crick”. Small town country boys.

3. almost 11 years ago on Pickles

   Ok, kids, here is what I wore in Ohio in the 1940s when I was Nelson’s age: Last kid in the school to wear knickers. Corduroy knickers. My Dad (el cheapo) said “They’ll wear like iron” and bought them two sizes too big so I wore them in shame “forever”. My little brother escaped them as he wasn’t old enough. Our shoes were “clodhoppers” – high-top kids replica of the black leather work shoe. Some kids wore cleats on them for a click as they sauntered the halls at school. Dungarees. When the knees wore holes Mom would sew and later iron-on dark blue patches on the faded dungarees. Tennis shoes were always hi-top black & white. My bathing suit was wool! Shrunk some when we swam with inner tubes in the “crick”. Small town country boys.

4. almost 11 years ago on Luann

   Some of you here that denigrate this great Country and its ideals need to do your own study & thinking for yourselves. Those who run down America are like the people who stand by and watch an innocent person getting badly beaten or killed. The same ones who said they “would rather be Red than dead” as we fought the Communist menace. The most important statement in this discussion was made by cjcampbell, – that “we fight for the ideas, rights, and the liberty of our United States Constitution”. We have in America today some 7.2 million solid Vietnamese citizens who fled tyranny. If our politicians had stayed the course in Vietnam and not sold that country out, there would be 71 million Vietnamese not now living in an un-free land. South Vietnam could have been another South Korea – free, vibrant and prosperous, but cowardly congressmen did not honor their commitment. History knows who they were. America is the most exceptional country in the history of the World! We have left our dead heroes buried in many foreign lands that are now free. Peace is not the answer. Peace is what Hitler and Stalin had when they ruled as dictators. Real peace for each of us comes only when we are truly free. Only Freedom is the real answer and we will not keep it without fighting the enemies of Liberty, as we have done for 237 years. Read your history, young people, and be proud of America. We are truly blessed.