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Well I am parentless now at almost 73. I inherited some swell family photos though. Even though it has taken me a week and a half daily of researching who the hell these people all are. Most of the 1000 photos or so from almost 100 years I have never seen before. Found dads memory folder with a lotof WW2 pics from his 2 years on Oahu in 1943-45. He is a marine. He never talked much about IMG_8349.jpegIMG_8346.jpegIMG_8345.jpegIMG_8343.jpegIMG_8344.jpegIMG_8350.jpegbeing an mp in what was left of Pearl Harbor, now I understand why…
 
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Capt Insano Emeritis said:
Well I am parentless now at almost 73. I inherited some swell family photos though. Even though it has taken me a week and a half daily of researching who the hell these people all are. Most of the 1000 photos or so from almost 100 years I have never seen before. Found dads memory folder with a lotof WW2 pics from his 2 years on Oahu in 1943-45. He is a marine. He never talked much about View attachment 173067View attachment 173068View attachment 173069View attachment 173070View attachment 173071View attachment 173072being an mp in what was left of Pearl Harbor, now I understand why…
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The first black page with photos has some ration wrapper or item significant enough to save in the scrapbook. Anyone know what it is?
 
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The first black page with photos has some ration wrapper or item significant enough to save in the scrapbook. Anyone know what it is?
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Is it a taped up package or envelope with something inside it?
Almost looks like a leaf with tape around the edges.

I am sorry for your loss
 
Shawn Seeger said:
I forgot my son got this for me for Christmas a few years back... found it in a storage box not the game cabinet... Just funny
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That is a great find. Do you need to get rid of it??

Before I went back to grad school in 1976. I went to the Soviet Union on my own dime. 25 years old and I spoke a really bad mixture of Russian and Ukrainian that was frozen in time when my parents were enslaved by the Germans in 1941.

The Soviet Union was definitely a "class" dominated society with special shopping hours, stores, and restaurants for party members and tourists. There is a classic Russian joke where in punch line is Brezhnev's mother saying "what will we do if the Communists come back".

I made the mistake of trying to get lunch at a "party and tourist" restaurant by speaking Russian to the bouncer. He assumed that I was a local. When I asked why I couldn't have lunch there his answer was "you don't have that kind of money".

That is the great thing about capitalism. To quote Hank Williams "if you got the money honey, I have the time".
 
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That is a great find. Do you need to get rid of it??

Before I went back to grad school in 1976. I went to the Soviet Union on my own dime. 25 years old and I spoke a really bad mixture of Russian and Ukrainian that was frozen in time when my parents were enslaved by the Germans in 1941.

The Soviet Union was definitely a "class" dominated society with special shopping hours, stores, and restaurants for party members and tourists. There is a classic Russian joke where in punch line is Brezhnev's mother saying "what will we do if the Communists come back".

I made the mistake of trying to get lunch at a "party and tourist" restaurant by speaking Russian to the bouncer. He assumed that I was a local. When I asked why I couldn't have lunch there his answer was "you don't have that kind of money".

That is the great thing about capitalism. To quote Hank Williams "if you got the money honey, I have the time".
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I spent a couple months in The USSR in 1991. I noticed a number of little things that were a twist on what I saw as usual behavior in the people. They either look over their shoulders a lot or had their heads down when moving about as if attempting invisability. It was KGB this and that the whole time I was working there. So any that moved to the US over time must currently think we Americans are fussy folks and worrying about nothing and have a bit of that homeland warm and fuzziness of those old sable winter hats.
 
The Forest Service sent me to Vladivostok in 1996 to save the Siberian Tiger.

It was still a very, very poor country, but that fear in people's faces that is so common in Communism was gone. I wonder if what it is like under Putin?

What the people said about America in 1996 in Vladivostok......."America, the land of the wide people". Thank god we can fix that now with pharmaceuticals!!!

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A Soviet teacher was asking her students on Patriot Day who her Mother and Father were.

A little girl answered that her Mother was Mother Russia where the Soviet state started and her father was Vladimir Lenin the founder of the great Soviet state.

The teacher just beamed. Then she quickly asked the little girl "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

The little girl looked at her and said "An orphan".
 
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